Re: Bash - various feature requests

[Chet Ramey]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:

> However, if I use echo ${f:-3} I don't get the expected result. I wonder
> if this is a bug of my bash version:

Please read the Bash FAQ, question E12.  ${parameter:-word} already means
something else.

Chet

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