Re: String replacement drops leading '-e' if replacing char is a space

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2023, at 1:27 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
> The echo command is consuming the '-e', as it is a flag.  Instead, try
> using:
>
>   printf '%s\n' "${x/,/ }"

Also note that echo wouldn't have consumed the "-e" had the expansions
been quoted properly (as Eduardo did in his printf example):

        bash-5.2$ x='-e,b,c'
        bash-5.2$ echo "${x//,/ }"
        -e b c
        bash-5.2$ echo "${x/,/ }"
        -e b,c


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