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		Jenz on Sept 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pure Bash Bible I was talking about the implementation. To whoever has implemented and who will maintain this; to them I think this will read horrible, and that is not good even if it is invisible to an end-user. I mean, how long wouldn’t even a very experienced bash programmer take to understand that substitution...

rhizome31 on Sept 19, 2019 [–]

To be fair this is one of the least readable examples of the document. They're not all that bad.

Jenz on Sept 19, 2019 | [–]

Yes, far from it. Actually a lot them seem very intuitive, esp.

  lower() {
      # Usage: lower "string"
      printf '%s\n' "${1,,}"
  }

And with uppercase, "${1^^}" instead.

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