On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:48:55PM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > Hi, the upstream author of the diet libc disagrees, and quotes relevant > parts from the susv3 standard, see > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.dietlibc/541 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.dietlibc/543
That's what I thought too if you read the entire BTS entry. However, there is a special clause in section 2.13.1 which specifically applies to bracket expressions. : When pattern matching is used where shell quote removal is not performed : (such as in the argument to the find -name primary when find is being : called using one of the exec functions as defined in the System : Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x, or in the pattern argument : to the fnmatch( ) function), special characters can be escaped to remove : their special meaning by preceding them with a backslash character. This is also how other shells (bash & pdksh) treat these patterns: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ksh -c 'case a in [\]a]) echo hi; ;; esac' hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash -c 'case a in [\]a]) echo hi; ;; esac' hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Note: The case statement is another place where quote removal is not performed. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
