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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Parameter expansion, patterns and fnmatch
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 22:46:46 +0800
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On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:25:15AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> 2.13.1 Patterns Matching a Single Character
> 
> [
>     If an open bracket introduces a bracket expression as in XBD RE
> Bracket Expression, except that the <exclamation-mark> character ( '!' )
> shall replace the <circumflex> character ( '^' ) in its role in a
> non-matching list in the regular expression notation, it shall introduce
> a pattern bracket expression. A bracket expression starting with an
> unquoted <circumflex> character produces unspecified results. Otherwise,
> '[' shall match the character itself.

BTW, this last sentence is not present in

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_13

So I presume it's a newer unreleased revision.

Seriously, you guys are turning POSIX into a joke by introducing
all these new requirements.  At this point I think we should
pretty much give up on POSIX compliance the way it's headed.

Cheers,
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