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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: Parameter expansion bug?
In-Reply-To: <199610311441.OAA10516@gmp-etpres1.uk.jpmorgan.com> from Anthony Heading at "Oct 31, 96 02:41:57 pm"
To: aheading@jpmorgan.com (Anthony Heading)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:12:35 +0100 (MET)
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Anthony Heading wrote:
> This does not print anything (at least with zsh 3.0.0) - shouldn't it print `-'?
> 
> % echo ${dqkjdkqdq:--}

In zsh echo - does not print anything and echo - -n prints -n.  How do you
print -n under bash?

Try

print -r - ${sdrgsdfdg:--}

Zoltan