Re: question about parameter expansion

[Dmitri Vereshchagin <dmitri.vereshchagin@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> [2015-09-26 21:34]:
> Here's another variant, which may or may not be considered more
> concise (it happens to be the exact same number of characters, but
> uses fewer things, and probably doesn't work under ksh_arrays, but
> then, what does, commas abounds),
> 
> bar=${${:-baz}[1,$+foo-1]}

Nice.  Seems like there is another alternative

bar=${${foo-baz}#$foo}

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Dmitri Vereshchagin