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Re: Why does case-pattern undergo "process substitution"?


From: Lawrence Velázquez
Subject: Re: Why does case-pattern undergo "process substitution"?
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:07:38 -0400

On Sat, Aug 24, 2024, at 8:01 PM, Eric Pruitt wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 08:27:38AM +0000, shynur . wrote:
>> Indeed, despite the manual doesn't mention "process substitution":
>> 
>>     The _word_ undergoes tilde expansion, parameter expansion,
>>     command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote
>>     removal before matching is attempted.
>
> You're quoting an old version of the man page.

I don't believe the man page has ever contained that text.  OP is
quoting an old Texinfo manual, but even the current devel version
doesn't mention process substitution.  An unintentional omission,
no doubt.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/doc/bashref.texi?h=devel&id=2e01122fe78eb5a42c9b9f3ca46b91f895959675#n1043

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