From: jeff@nuance.com (Jeff Bergan) Subject: bash pattern substitution 19 Sep 1998 06:02:10 -0700 Message-ID: <000501bde352$dd936610$68c718d1.cygnus.gnu-win32@pacific.nuance.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Gnu-Win32 Mailing List (E-mail)" Hi, I was just trying to write a bash script in which I wanted to do a quick substitution in a variable, and it seems that bash has trouble with this. I typed in an example from a book which works on unix: echo -e {PATH//:/'\n'} And it complains of bad substitution. I'm using b18 on NT.. is this known and fixed in b19? Thanks! Jeff - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".