On 7/2/16 3:16 AM, Ibrahim M. Ghazal wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. I reported it there (
> https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/52 ).
>
> After further investigation, the problem seems to be that when IFS is
> set to '*', case *) doesn't get executed. Is this the intended
> behavior?
"Ibrahim M. Ghazal" 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 exis
Thanks for the pointer. I reported it there (
https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/52 ).
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"
On 7/1/16 8:23 AM, Ibrahim M. Ghazal wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 42
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> If you set IFS='*' in an interactive shell, then try to use tab
> completion, bash freezes and doesn't respond to any keyboard input.
> Running top from a different bash
