ksh regexp....bad substitution error.

[aswolff]

I am testing the following at the solaris command prompt and getting the below error. What am I doing wrong?

$ allfiles="fred.c alex.c"
$ echo $allfiles
fred.c alex.c
$ alljobs=${allfiles/c/o}
ksh: alljobs=${allfiles/c/o}: bad substitution

Any help is appreciated.

 

[feherke]

Hi

According to the man page that kind of expansion is available in the [tt]ksh[/tt] 93 version, but not in the [tt]ksh[/tt] 88. Sure you have the right one ?

Feherke.

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