On 5/10/21 10:40 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Mai 10 2021, Chet Ramey wrote:
Either way, quote removal happens, the double quotes are removed, and
the characters between the double quotes are treated specially.
POSIX doesn't mention quote removal either. Is that a bug? There is
the parenthe
On Mai 10 2021, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Either way, quote removal happens, the double quotes are removed, and
> the characters between the double quotes are treated specially.
POSIX doesn't mention quote removal either. Is that a bug? There is
the parenthetical remark "(which also describes the eff
On 5/10/21 10:23 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Mai 10 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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
On Mai 10 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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
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 a
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
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
