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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