Problem in bin/sh stripping the * character through ${expansion%}

[Johan van Selst]

Johan van Selst wrote:
> When I tried it myself, I automatically typed quotes, which does work
> 	var="${var%\*}"

Really should learn to read better: this in fact procudes 'foo'
rather than 'foo\' in the given example case. Again, not like bash.


Johan
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