07-16-2012
Thanks for your answer, it's kind of obvious if you think about it.
I have read the manual earlier but I misunderstood this part:
Quote:
[[...]]
[[ expression ]]
Return a status of 0 or 1 depending on the evaluation of the conditional expression expression. Expressions are composed of the primaries described below in Bash Conditional Expressions. Word splitting and filename expansion are not performed on the words between the ‘[[' and ‘]]'; tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, arithmetic expansion, command substitution, process substitution, and quote removal are performed. Conditional operators such as ‘-f' must be unquoted to be recognized as primaries.
I understood "parameter and variable expansion
... are performed" as that they are automatically expanded like it is for
(( ... )) , my bad
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WORDEXP(3) Linux Programmer's Manual WORDEXP(3)
NAME
wordexp, wordfree - perform word expansion like a posix-shell
SYNOPSIS
#include <wordexp.h>
int wordexp(const char *s, wordexp_t *p, int flags);
void wordfree(wordexp_t *p);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
wordexp(), wordfree(): _XOPEN_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
The function wordexp() performs a shell-like expansion of the string s and returns the result in the structure pointed to by p. The data
type wordexp_t is a structure that at least has the fields we_wordc, we_wordv, and we_offs. The field we_wordc is a size_t that gives the
number of words in the expansion of s. The field we_wordv is a char ** that points to the array of words found. The field we_offs of type
size_t is sometimes (depending on flags, see below) used to indicate the number of initial elements in the we_wordv array that should be
filled with NULLs.
The function wordfree() frees the allocated memory again. More precisely, it does not free its argument, but it frees the array we_wordv
and the strings that points to.
The string argument
Since the expansion is the same as the expansion by the shell (see sh(1)) of the parameters to a command, the string s must not contain
characters that would be illegal in shell command parameters. In particular, there must not be any unescaped newline or |, &, ;, <, >, (,
), {, } characters outside a command substitution or parameter substitution context.
If the argument s contains a word that starts with an unquoted comment character #, then it is unspecified whether that word and all fol-
lowing words are ignored, or the # is treated as a non-comment character.
The expansion
The expansion done consists of the following stages: tilde expansion (replacing ~user by user's home directory), variable substitution
(replacing $FOO by the value of the environment variable FOO), command substitution (replacing $(command) or `command` by the output of
command), arithmetic expansion, field splitting, wildcard expansion, quote removal.
The result of expansion of special parameters ($@, $*, $#, $?, $-, $$, $!, $0) is unspecified.
Field splitting is done using the environment variable $IFS. If it is not set, the field separators are space, tab and newline.
The output array
The array we_wordv contains the words found, followed by a NULL.
The flags argument
The flag argument is a bitwise inclusive OR of the following values:
WRDE_APPEND
Append the words found to the array resulting from a previous call.
WRDE_DOOFFS
Insert we_offs initial NULLs in the array we_wordv. (These are not counted in the returned we_wordc.)
WRDE_NOCMD
Don't do command substitution.
WRDE_REUSE
The argument p resulted from a previous call to wordexp(), and wordfree() was not called. Reuse the allocated storage.
WRDE_SHOWERR
Normally during command substitution stderr is redirected to /dev/null. This flag specifies that stderr is not to be redirected.
WRDE_UNDEF
Consider it an error if an undefined shell variable is expanded.
RETURN VALUE
In case of success 0 is returned. In case of error one of the following five values is returned.
WRDE_BADCHAR
Illegal occurrence of newline or one of |, &, ;, <, >, (, ), {, }.
WRDE_BADVAL
An undefined shell variable was referenced, and the WRDE_UNDEF flag told us to consider this an error.
WRDE_CMDSUB
Command substitution occurred, and the WRDE_NOCMD flag told us to consider this an error.
WRDE_NOSPACE
Out of memory.
WRDE_SYNTAX
Shell syntax error, such as unbalanced parentheses or unmatched quotes.
VERSIONS
wordexp() and wordfree() are provided in glibc since version 2.1.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001.
EXAMPLE
The output of the following example program is approximately that of "ls [a-c]*.c".
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <wordexp.h>
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
wordexp_t p;
char **w;
int i;
wordexp("[a-c]*.c", &p, 0);
w = p.we_wordv;
for (i = 0; i < p.we_wordc; i++)
printf("%s
", w[i]);
wordfree(&p);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
SEE ALSO
fnmatch(3), glob(3)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
2008-07-14 WORDEXP(3)