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Re: Inconsistence when checking if a pattern is quoted or not for `==' a


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: Inconsistence when checking if a pattern is quoted or not for `==' and `=~' in [[ ]]
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:10:53 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 05:18:23PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Maybe if the man page had read "...to force the quoted portion to be
> matched as a string" this could have been avoided.

I like this answer.  Removing ambiguity ("it" could refer to the
whole pattern or to the quoted portion) is always good.



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