[Toybox] bash continues to confuse me.

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/1/20 4:50 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:

>> But implementing it seems tricky: ${x;%} reliably errors whether or not x is
>> set, ${x~#%} never does (I can't find what ~ is supposed to do here in the man
>> page,
> 
> Of course the first one errors -- `x;' is not a valid parameter name (and
> we won't even talk about the missing pattern after `%'). I don't think
> there's any argument there.
> 
> The second case is clearly a bug. It should produce an error.

My fault. I thought I had disabled that feature, but it's still in there.
It's one of the case-changing operators (the undocumented case-toggling
one). It's not particularly useful.


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