was not being done properly (too many different code paths inside sh)
so add even more subtests to the case_matching test case to verify
that all (that I can think of for now anyway) get fixed when this
gets cleaned up. The case_matching test case still fails, but now
6 of its subtests should fail (until sh is corrected ... soon).
Martijn Dekker (private e-mail.) Variable expansions that are
double quoted result in literal characters (nver pattern matching
meta chars.) This includes '\' (that one was the bug.)
[On the other hand, a variable in a case pattern expansion that is
unquoted, produces a pattern, and in that the \ character can be
used to excape other pattern meta-chars (and itself.]
This addition will cause the case_matching test case to fail (two
of the newly added sub-tests fail) until fixes to /bin/sh are made.
(That is comiung soon, the code exists already.)
In the filename expansion test, don't insist on testing cases
of [^a] anything not an a) (etc) - while almost all shells allow
^ there (as in regular expressions) this is not standard sh/glob syntax
(! is used for that, not ^). Use of ^ as first char after '[' in a []
match has unspecified behaviour. So, check if the shell being
tested supports ^ used this way before running the tests of ^ in [].
This makes no difference at all when testing the NetBSD sh which
does allow ^ for that use case.
Fix an obvious (in hindsight) stupidity in the case pattern tests
(a cut/paste/forget-to-fix type error).
Many cleanups, including some additional sub-tests, for the var
substring matching (just a couple of actual fixes to the tests).
(This was the last added, and least polished part - still is.)
This makes no difference to the filename expansion tests (11 of 167
still fail), the fix reduces the failing case match tests from
14 of 261 to 13 of 261. For var substring tests, the failure
has changed from 6 of 87 to 8 of 99. (Some) Fixes to sh will appear
soon.
For comparison, using this version of the test, dash passes all case
and var substring tests, and (aside from the [^...] tests which it
does not implement) fails 4 of the filename tests. bash fails one
case test (a bash oddity in interpretation of the spec, which is unique
to bash amongst shells I have tested) and one filename expansion (all
var substring tests pass). Other shells are much worse (though the
freebsd shell results were coloured by the version of their shell I
tested still having the [[:xxx:]] always matches '[' bug, which is
fixed in later versions of their shell)
patterns, and variable expansion substring matching)
Currently (2018-07-10) all 3 sub-tests fail (sh bugs...)
Expect to see 14 (of 261) case matching sub-tests fail, 11 (of 167) filename
expansion (glob) sub-tests fail, and 6 (of 87) var substring sub-tests fail.
Also expect those numbers to reduce as sh bugs are fixed.
martin