Re: [PATCH] doc: Document another pitfall of shell pattern matching
Bruno Haible via Patches for autoconf - the GNU build system <[email protected]> Tue, 06 May 2025 15:03:09 +0200
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Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks, I installed that, along with the attached followup which > documents some other globbing pitfalls. Thanks. That's much more complete! > By the way, brace expansion is not part of globbing: it's a prepass over > the shell command and it operates independently of file names. Brace > expansion does not work when doing pattern matching in 'case' > statements, for example. So I adjusted the example to not imply that > brace expansion cares whether files exist. Oh. That was another wrong understanding of how the shell language works, on my side. Thanks for correcting me. Bruno