"Ibrahim M. Ghazal" <img...@gmail.com> writes:

> After further investigation, the problem seems to be that when IFS is
> set to '*', case *) doesn't get executed. Is this the intended
> behavior?
>
> For example:
>
> IFS='*'; case "foo" in *) echo "got here";; esac
>
> doesn't print "got here".

The same issue exists for the other glob special characters ? [ ] .

Andreas.

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