Bash expansion question
gregorcy
gregorcy at eng.utah.edu
Wed Feb 18 13:18:00 MST 2009
Barry Roberts wrote:
> On 02/18/2009 01:07 PM, Chris wrote:
>> Dear bash experts,
>>
>> Observe:
>>
>> bash$ echo $(echo "1:2")
>> 1:2
>>
>> bash$ echo $(echo "1,2")
>> 1 2
>>
>>
> [blr at dalmuti ~]$ echo $(echo "1,2")
> 1,2
>
>
> Looks like a personal problem ;-)
>
> But seriously, what distro are you on? It works as expected on fc10,
> and I'm not sure what setting would affect that, but I don't doubt there
> is one.
>
Works for me:
> harley gregorcy # echo $(echo "1,2")
> 1,2
I am using:
> app-shells/bash-3.2_p48-r1
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