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BUG: small posix glitch in ${x%*}

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From: Jan Grant <jang@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: BUG: small posix glitch in ${x%*}
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 22:07:37 +0000
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As I read the spec, the smallest suffix that can match * is the null string; so

    x=123; echo ${x%*}

should output "123". Zsh (as of 5.7.1) drops the last character.

(The behaviour for prefixes is correct.)

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