On 5/10/21 7:12 AM, AlvinSeville7cf wrote:
Hello! Let’s consider the following snippet from [1]Bash docs:
case word in
[ [(] pattern [| pattern]…) command-list ;;]…
esac
It is written that: Each pattern undergoes tilde expansion, parameter
expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion. But if it’s
true why the following code outputs Y?
You're right; case patterns undergo quote removal.
Chet
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