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What’s New in Bash Parameter Expansion

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Mitch Frazier
Nov 29, 2018

The bash man page is close to 40K words. It’s not quite War and Peace, but it could hold its own in a rack of cheap novels. Given the size of bash’s documentation, missing a useful feature is easy to do when looking through the man page. For that reason, as well as to look for new features, revisiting the man page occasionally can be a useful thing to do.
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