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From: | Chet Ramey |
Subject: | Re: Why does case-pattern undergo "process substitution"? |
Date: | Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:21:36 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird |
On 8/23/24 6:06 PM, shynur . wrote:
Eric: my guess would be is that it's a consequence of theparser, and it's simpler to inherit the behaviorwhereas removing it specifically for case patternswould require a deliberate change in the code.If so, I think this will happen to both _word_ and _pattern_. But the manual doesn't say _word_ will undergo “process substitution”.
Yes, it's an oversight. The man page has the complete list. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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