I was working from memory there. It's at *least* true of bash and ksh, and the POSIX shell was based on ksh originally so I'd have expected it to be in POSIX too. But I don't see it in dash which was intended to be a bare-bones POSIX shell so it looks like I was wrong about POSIX.
David On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Quinn Grier <qu...@quinngrier.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
