Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Jan Schaumann wrote:

> > What I'm missing is variable substitution.
> >
> > export FOO="Foo Bar Baz"
> > echo ${FOO// /_}
> >
> > ksh93 seems to have this feature, pdksh does not.
> 
> That's nice, but does any of that work in "csh", the current default
> root shell?

No.  I didn't mean to compare ksh to other shells, but merely to point
out that I would like that feature.  bash does it, FWIW.

When I Find The Time(tm)[1], I'd be interested to poke around in ksh to add
this feature.

-Jan

[1] At current estimates, this will not happen before mid-november ;-)
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