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[Help-bash] Is the actionable variable in a case statement POSIXly immun
From: |
Chris Down |
Subject: |
[Help-bash] Is the actionable variable in a case statement POSIXly immune to word splitting? |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:14:48 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) |
Is the actionable variable in a case statement POSIXly immune to word
splitting? I looked at the POSIX spec and didn't see anything about it,
but it's quite possible that I just missed it in the rest of the text.
All shells that I've tested (bash, zsh, mksh, dash) seem to behave this
way.
$ pacman -Q dash
dash 0.5.7-4
$ line='foo bar'
$ case $line in
> *) echo "$line"
> esac
foo bar
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