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[FYI] Possible bash bug.
- To: cygwin users <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: [FYI] Possible bash bug.
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:24:29 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
This isn't Cygwin specific; but covers all cases of bash.
mkdir /foo
case "/foo" in [/\\]*) echo 1;; esac
case "/foo" in [\\/]*) echo 2;; esac
The first test case fails to find the directory /foo.
The second test case finds /foo and echos 2.
Regards,
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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