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sr #108171: documentation of == within [[ ]] is incorrect

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Submitted:  Tue 30 Oct 2012 07:23:46 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  Done
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Wed 25 Mar 2015 11:12:25 AM UTC, comment #1: 

No longer a bug

Affected bash version was not specified, this is no longer true (if it was true back then), for the lastest version of the manual:

     When  the  ==  and  != operators are used, the string to the right of the operator is considered a pattern and matched
              according to the rules described below under Pattern Matching, as if the extglob shell option  were  enabled.

Eduardo Bustamante <dualbus>
Tue 30 Oct 2012 07:23:46 PM UTC, original submission:  

The documentation of the == comparison operator within
[[ does not mention that pattern evaluation is performed.

Example:

$ [[ aaa == a* ]] && echo true
true

$ [[ aaa == "a*" ]] && echo true

Also applies to !=

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