Re: [Help-bash] ${var//!([[:class:]])} removing characters of the [:class:]

[Pierre Gaston]

> But I don't know how to explain this result:
>
> $ echo ${v//!(foobar)/xxx}
> xxxxxx

!(foobar) first matches "fooba" (the longest string not matching
foobar) and replaces it with xxx

It then matches the r and replaces it by xxx

and yeah !(pattern) is not the most intuitive glob