Op 10-04-18 om 21:52 schreef Robert Elz:
No, it doesn't.
Read that again, with the emphasis I am adding ...
|http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_04_05
| | The conditional construct case shall execute the/compound-list/
| | corresponding to the first one of several/patterns/ (see Pattern
| | Matching Notation) that is matched by the string resulting from the
| | tilde expansion, parameter expansion, command substitution,
| | arithmetic expansion, and quote removal **of the given word**.
That part is talking about the "case $x in" $x is the "given word",
that is certainly subject to quote removal.
Quite right, I stand corrected.
Thanks,
- M.
