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Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?



On 05/03/2024 09:02, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 10:49:34AM +0900, John Crawley wrote:

I think ^ has been deprecated recently. I failed to find a reference on the web just now though.

So, ^ isn't "deprecated".  It's just not portable to sh.

Running shellcheck on a *sh* script with a [^s] glob gives https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC3026
"In POSIX sh, ^ in place of ! in glob bracket expressions is undefined."
with some links. There is no warning in the case of a #!/bin/bash script.



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