Re: [Help-bash] Things like ${parameter^} only works with path expansion?

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/11/15 12:08 PM, Pierre Gaston wrote:

> The pattern after ,, and ^^ only matches one character at a time eg:
> var=hello; echo "${var^^[el]}"
> prints hELLo because the pattern matches the characters e and l.
> 
> (not sure what was the idea behind this feature)

Case conversion was a requested feature that wasn't easily available
otherwise.  The syntax itself was an experiment.

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