Re: Question about case statement in Bash docs

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 09:12:33PM +1000, AlvinSeville7cf wrote:
>    x=test
>    case $x in
>        "test") echo Y
>    esac
> 
>    Pattern is quoted but no quote removal is performed according to docs.

Quote removal is essential, because of the way the empty string
is matched:

case $foo in
  "") echo "foo is empty";;
  ...

So, it may be a documentation omission, or maybe it's mentioned in some
other paragraph, but either way quote removal definitely happens here.