Re: Backslashes in unquoted parameter expansions

[Martijn Dekker <martijn@xxxxxxxx>]

Op 26-03-18 om 12:30 schreef Harald van Dijk:
> 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?

I don't see any inconsistency. Expansions are consistently treated
differently within 'case' than outside it. Among other things,
expansions within 'case' are *not* subject to pathname expansion; it's
string pattern matching using glob patterns, which is something
completely different.

- M.
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