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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:24:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: [FYI] Possible bash bug.
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This isn't Cygwin specific; but covers all cases of bash.

mkdir /foo
case "/foo" in [/\\]*) echo 1;; esac
case "/foo" in [\\/]*) echo 2;; esac

The first test case fails to find the directory /foo.
The second test case finds /foo and echos 2.

Regards,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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