Re: 'case' pattern matching bug with bracket expressions

[Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@xxxxxxxx>]

On 5/14/15 1:30 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> Even in bash the space can be left unescaped in some contexts; e.g.
> 
> schaefer@burner:~$ var=' '
> schaefer@burner:~$ echo ${var//[ ]/foo}
> foo

Yes.  Inside ${...}, the space doesn't delimit a token.  The Posix
tokenizing rules specify that.

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