GNU bug report logs - #78329
bash extraction of segment from end of string returns full string

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From: <carlyle_moulton <at> optusnet.com.au>
To: <bug-automake <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bash extraction of segment from end of string returns full string
Date: Fri, 09 May 2025 06:36:27 +0000

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GNU bash, version 5.2.32(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)

Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later < http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html >

In Fedora 41.

${parameter:-offset} and ${parameter:-offset:length} return full parameter.

carl <at> fedora:~$ a=12345

carl <at> fedora:~$ echo ${a:-2}

12345

carl <at> fedora:~$ echo ${a:-3:2}

12345

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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: carlyle_moulton <at> optusnet.com.au
Cc: 78329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78329: bash extraction of segment from end of string returns
 full string
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 15:49:41 -0600

Hi,

    Subject: bug#78329: bash extraction of segment from end of string
    returns full string

Thanks for the report, but why are you sending this to bug-automake? 
It seems like bug-bash <at> gnu.org is the right list for this one ... --best, karl.

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