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Re: Comparison problem with case modification expansion in bash-4.3

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On 11/3/15 9:03 AM, Corentin Peuvrel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I found a bug in bash-4.3 (4.3.42 in fedora 21), that seems to exists for a long time (at least from 4.1.2 in Centos 6).
> 
> I found a fairly simple way to reproduce it : you have to initialize a variable to an empty string, and do a comparaison to it while doing the case modification expansion ${var,,}
> 
> This doesn't work :
> # foo="" ; [[ bar == *"${foo,,}"* ]] && echo ok

Thanks for the report.  There is a stray quoted null character in the
expanded pattern, which needs to be removed.  This will be fixed in
bash-4.4.

Chet

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