Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing..
maybe..does this example help?
# case /test/test2/dir1/file in /test/*) echo 'match';; *) echo 'nomatch';;
esac
match
here, the expectation is to NOT match, since '/test/*' in normal shell, i.e.
"ls", would NOT match that long path. by path name expansion, man page is
hinting it behaves like "ls", but clearly it does not.
in summary, it seems bash has no internal fnmatch(3) implementation.
On Thursday, March 15, 2018, 5:26:32 PM GMT+2, Chet Ramey
wrote:
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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