On 9/23/19 1:38 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> Currently nocaseglob and nocasematch both control case insensitivity
> of RE matching (in lib/sh/smatch.c):
>
> if (glob_ignore_case || match_ignore_case)
> rflags |= REG_ICASE;
>
> However, the documentation suggests that only nocasematch should have
> this effect. I'm guessing this behavior was in bash-3.1 for
> compatibility with bash-3.0 (in which nocaseglob *was* the documented
> way to turn on case insensitive RE matching, prior to nocasematch
> being added) but it doesn't seem to make much sense now.
Yeah, it's probably time to remove the glob_ignore_case.
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