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Re: [Help-bash] extended-glob required by cond-command
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] extended-glob required by cond-command |
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Tue, 19 Jun 2018 14:18:18 -0400 |
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On 6/19/18 1:52 PM, Joel Ebel wrote:
> Is it expected that the extended glob feature is required to compile with
> the cond-command feature? Using bash 4.4.18, I fail to compile if I
> configure with "--disable-extended-glob --enable-cond-command" More
> specifically, I'm compiling with "--enable-minimal-config
> --enable-cond-command" but I was not expecting that extended glob would
> also be required.
Yes. The == operator performs pattern matching. For compatibility with
ksh93, that pattern matching uses extended globbing unconditionally.
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