Re: Setting IFS='*' causes bash to freeze on tab completion

[Chet Ramey]

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?
> 
> For example:
> 
> IFS='*'; case "foo" in *) echo "got here";; esac
> 
> doesn't print "got here".

Yep, that's a bug.  Thanks for the report and reproducer.  The problem is
that the `*' ends up being matched literally instead of as a matching
character.  This will be fixed in the next release of bash.

Chet

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Re: Setting IFS='*' causes bash to freeze on tab completion

[Andreas Schwab]

"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 exists for the other glob special characters ? [ ] .

Andreas.

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Re: Setting IFS='*' causes bash to freeze on tab completion

[Ibrahim M. Ghazal]

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";; esac

doesn't print "got here".