bash/tests/new-exp17.sub

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# address issues with patsub_replacement, quoting `&', and BASH_COMPAT <= 42

# unquoted pattern substitutions with unquoted pattern and replacement strings
# will still perform matching and replacement even if BASH_COMPAT == 42

s="a < b"

echo unquoted word expansion with quoted pattern and replacement
echo '4.2: 4.2, a &lt; b'
for ver in 4.2 5.2; do
  BASH_COMPAT=$ver # ignored for bash version less than 5.0
  t=${s//'<'/'&lt;'}
  echo "${BASH_VERSINFO[0]}.${BASH_VERSINFO[1]}: $BASH_COMPAT, $t"
done

echo double-quoted word expansion with quoted pattern and replacement
echo "4.2: 4.2, a '&lt;' b"
for ver in 4.2 5.2; do
  BASH_COMPAT=$ver # ignored for bash version less than 5.0
  t="${s//'<'/'&lt;'}"
  echo "${BASH_VERSINFO[0]}.${BASH_VERSINFO[1]}: $BASH_COMPAT, $t"
done

echo unquoted word expansion with unquoted pattern and replacement
echo '4.2: 4.2, a &lt; b'
for ver in 4.2 5.2; do
  BASH_COMPAT=$ver # ignored for bash version less than 5.0
  t=${s//</&lt;}
  echo "${BASH_VERSINFO[0]}.${BASH_VERSINFO[1]}: $BASH_COMPAT, $t"
done

# XXX - this is iffy but difficult to distinguish internally
echo double-quoted word expansion with unquoted pattern and replacement
echo '4.2: 4.2, a &lt; b'
for ver in 4.2 5.2; do
  BASH_COMPAT=$ver # ignored for bash version less than 5.0
  t="${s//</&lt;}"
  echo "${BASH_VERSINFO[0]}.${BASH_VERSINFO[1]}: $BASH_COMPAT, $t"
done

echo unquoted word expansion with backslash-quoted '&'
echo '4.2: 4.2, a &lt; b'
for ver in 4.2 5.2; do
  BASH_COMPAT=$ver # ignored for bash version less than 5.0
  t=${s//</\&lt;}
  echo "${BASH_VERSINFO[0]}.${BASH_VERSINFO[1]}: $BASH_COMPAT, $t"
done

echo double-quoted word expansion with backslash-quoted '&'
echo '4.2: 4.2, a \&lt; b'
for ver in 4.2 5.2; do
  BASH_COMPAT=$ver # ignored for bash version less than 5.0
  t="${s//</\&lt;}"
  echo "${BASH_VERSINFO[0]}.${BASH_VERSINFO[1]}: $BASH_COMPAT, $t"
done