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Re: Question about case statement in Bash docs


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Question about case statement in Bash docs
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 16:40:46 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)

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 effect of quoting
parts of the pattern)" which suggests that quote removal is indeed not
needed.

Andreas.

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