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

Submitter:	None
Submitted:	Tue 30 Oct 2012 07:23:46 PM UTC


Category:	None	Priority:	5 - Normal
Severity:	2 - Minor	Status:	Done
Privacy:	Public	Assigned to:	None
Originator Email:	-email is unavailable-	Open/Closed:	Open
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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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