On 26/03/2018 11:34, Martijn Dekker wrote:
Op 25-03-18 om 22:56 schreef Harald van Dijk:
case /dev in $pat) echo why ;; esac
Now, bash and dash say that the pattern does match -- they take the
backslash as unquoted, allowing it to escape the v. Most other shells
(bosh, ksh93, mksh, pdksh, posh, yash, zsh) still take the backslash as
quoted.
This doesn't make sense to me, and doesn't match historic practice:
[...]
With the snipping it's not clear that I was specifically confused by the
inconsistency.
I had included another example:
pat="/de\v"
printf "%s\n" $pat
I can understand treating backslash as quoted, or treating it as
unquoted, but not quoted-unless-in-a-case-statement. What justifies this
one exception?
Cheers,
Harald van Dijk
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