Re: Question about case statement in Bash docs

[Andreas Schwab]

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 way the empty string
> is matched:
>
> case $foo in
>   "") echo "foo is empty";;
>   ...
>
> So, it may be a documentation omission, or maybe it's mentioned in some
> other paragraph, but either way quote removal definitely happens here.

IIUC there is no need for quote removal, because quoting is part of the
rules for pattern matching.

Andreas.

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