Thanks for clarifying, I learned something new today! Edit: It turns out that Bash does substitutions in the middle of strings using the ${string/substring/rep

Thanks for clarifying, I learned something new today! Edit: It turns out that Bash does substitutions in the middle of strings using the ${string/substring/replacement} and ${string//substring/replacement} syntax, for more details see https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html