On 3/14/18 1:43 PM, Stormy wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Section of 'case' in bash's man page says:
>
> case word in [ [(] pattern [ | pattern ] ... ) list ;; ] ... esac
> A case command first expands word, and tries to match it
> against each pattern in turn, using the same matching
> rules as for pathname expansion (see Pathname Expansion below).
>
> but that is not correct, the matching here does NOT follow pathname
> expansion, the treatment of "/" is not the same.
The description of Pathname Expansion says, in part:
"When matching a
pathname, the slash character must always be matched explicitly."
but I can expand that to also say that it other contexts it does not need
to be.
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