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		veyron on March 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix It's bash-specific (sh doesn't support it)

Nate75Sanders on March 17, 2012 [–]

It's not bash-specific. Other shells have it.

veyron on March 17, 2012 | [–]

But not the bourne shell

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