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Shell format strings, as supported by GNU gettext and the ‘envsubst’
program, are strings with references to shell variables in the form
$variable or ${variable}. References of the form
${variable-default},
${variable:-default},
${variable=default},
${variable:=default},
${variable+replacement},
${variable:+replacement},
${variable?ignored},
${variable:?ignored},
that would be valid inside shell scripts, are not supported. The
variable names must consist solely of alphanumeric or underscore
ASCII characters, not start with a digit and be nonempty; otherwise such
a variable reference is ignored.