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

[Clark WANG]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Pierre Gaston <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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

Makes sense. Thanks.

It then matches the r and replaces it by xxx

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

Agree.