"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. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."