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Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value

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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: unintuitive bracketing with return value
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:22:02 -0700
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On 2022-10-18 12:32, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

is equivalent to this:

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

which is not at all what you want.

Quite right, I expressed it poorly. Anyway the issue is closed, Iunderstand it. I wonder how old I'll have to be before I stop thinkingin C.

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