[Gllug] Bash: Escaping a *

[Russell Howe]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:36:52AM +0100, C. Cooke wrote:

> OPTS=( "-a" "-b" "-c" )
> /usr/bin/program "${OPTS[@]}" "$foo"

Ach, so

> String="${String//[![:alnum:]other-stuff-you-want]/}"

Ah, the ! I didn't know about. Useful indeed...

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