I just looked for that in the bash manpage, and i can't find anything
describing
that behavior. Can you highlight where you discovered that?



On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/30/2012 10:58 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>   Looks to me like the first test only tests if $1 is not at the end of 
>> $PATHor am I missing something?    ----- Original Message -----From: 
>> &quot;Jerry Feldman&quot; >;[email protected]
>>
> No, it tests is $1 exists in $PATH.
> I really hate bash pattern matching because I have to read the manual
> every time I use them.
> in this case '*:"$1":*' looks for $1 anywhere in $PATH.
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