Re: Running case commands with the shell function?

[Quinn Grier]

On 2017-09-14 05:54, David Boyce wrote:
> At one time "case" was necessary with
> patterns because "if" didn't handle them, but in the POSIX shell they take
> the same pattern constructs so you could say "if [[ $$target =  i386-*- ]];
> then ... else ... fi".

Is this true? I can only find POSIX saying otherwise:

     The following words may be recognized as reserved words on
     some implementations (when none of the characters are quoted),
     causing unspecified results:

          [[          ]]          function          select

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