Re: docs incorrectly mention pattern matching works like pathname expansion

[Chet Ramey]

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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