[kwlug-disc] The amazing colon trick in GLOB matching within [[ ]] for bash

[Federer Fanatic]

When installing tools from the internet they usually have a curl download
sh script and pipe it into sh...not recommended and I never to this instead
pipe to a file and then look at the script. In any case I found this bit of
magic in one of them I was not aware of but actually needed (normally one
just uses an external command in bash, afterall it's a shell:

if [[ ":${PATH}:" == *":${HOME}/.local/bin:"* ]]; then echo YES; else echo
NO; fi

and you do not need to enable globbing via shopt, the glob pattern is not
=~ construct but a check for equality....amazing ability for bash later
versions.



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