> And this is how. Quoting any part of the rhs forces it to be matched > as a string.
Okay, that's very clear. Maybe the man page could be updated? > Patch 39, which you appear to have applied, introduces a `compat31' shell > option which you may enable to restore the bash-3.1 behavior. Ah! And the patch patched the man page too ... cool :-) Thanks! Alexis