On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:49:53AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/02/2016 09:29 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:25:15AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > >> > >>>> This also affects > >>>> > >>>> case [a in [?) echo ok ;; *) echo bad ;; esac > >>>> > >>>> which should print ok. > >>> > >>> Even ksh prints bad here. > >> > >> So ksh is also buggy. > > > > Good luck writing a script with an unquoted [ expecting it to be > > portable :) > > [ '' ] || echo empty > > There, I just wrote a portable script with unquoted [ portably > interpreted as itself and not as a bracket filename expansion pattern.
dash handles that just fine. We're not talking about a lone [ in file expansion context here. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
