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Re: Parameter expansion bug?

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: aheading@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Anthony Heading)
Subject: Re: Parameter expansion bug?
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:12:35 +0100 (MET)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199610311441.OAA10516@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Anthony Heading at "Oct 31, 96 02:41:57 pm"
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Anthony Heading wrote:
> This does not print anything (at least with zsh 3.0.0) - shouldn't it print `-'?
> 
> % echo ${dqkjdkqdq:--}

In zsh echo - does not print anything and echo - -n prints -n.  How do you
print -n under bash?

Try

print -r - ${sdrgsdfdg:--}

Zoltan

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