Re: shell (/bin/sh) pattern matching bugs

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

Hello,

On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 05:11:34PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am soon going to add an ATF test for sh pattern matching (it tests all
> 3 forms, glob expansion, case patterns, and ${var#patern})
> 
>[...]
> 
> [97] var="[:alpha:]"; case "[" in (["$var"]) printf M;; (*) printf X;; esac
> [97] Expected output 'M', received 'X'
> 

Can you explain why you expect success ("M") in this case? From my basic
understanding of how the shell processes, I expect:

- Substitution of the value of $var in (["$var"]) resulting in:
	(["[:alpha:]"]);
- [Suppression of the double quotes? But this doesn't change anything in
the bracket expression];
- Then interpretation of the bracket expression.

But then "[" is not an alpha, so it correctly fails...

Could you explain why you think otherwise?

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