Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 12:33 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, at 1:57 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> > Very well written!  What breaks my intuition tho is the brackets.
> > Otherwise I quite understand that the last exit value is the active
> > one.  I'm expecting the brackets to 'contain' the rv of any commands
> > within the brackets.  But no, the left > right rule applies and the
> > brackets don't make any difference.
>
> I don't understand why you keep saying this.  Without the braces
> your command would be completely different.

I think Ray's just got the opening bracket in the wrong place.  He's
describing the bracketing as if it were this:

{ "${${1}##*[*?]*}" ] &&
echo "no wildcards"; printenv "$1" } || echo wildcards present

which would do exactly what he wants.