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From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: bash doesn't handle ${<number>:-<stuff>} correctly...
Message-ID: <1989Dec11.214836.28330@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 89 21:48:36 GMT
References: <8912090351.AA00729@team>
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In article <8912090351.AA00729@team> tmb@AI.MIT.EDU (Thomas M. Breuel) reports
that stuff like ${1:-1} fails.

I have already sent a fix for this to Brian.  Here's the output I get:

usenet$ sh seq 1 10
1 10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
usenet$ bash seq 1 10
1 10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Chet Ramey

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