Re: [[...]] documentation claims tilde expansion and process substitution occur within double quotes

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/26/24 5:36 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> Both the manual [1] and man page [2] state:
>
>         The words between the [[ and ]] do not undergo word splitting
>         and filename expansion.  The shell performs tilde expansion,
>         parameter and variable expansion, arithmetic expansion,
>         command substitution, process substitution, and quote removal
>         on those words (the expansions that would occur if the words
>         were enclosed in double quotes).
>
> However, the parenthetical is misleading because tilde expansion
> and process substitution don't occur within double quotes.  (I just
> helped an IRC user who'd been confused by this text.)

Yes, the parenthesized text is wrong. I can't remember why I added it.

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