From: Oğuz <oguzismailuysal@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: variable expanding to `*` matches a literal `*` in case cond. construct
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:41:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH7i3Loe=j+cQXOCMKyy0=efmRxkzaONqaiCYpn9oA--_cYg3Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Although one would expect it to print "match"
zsh -c 'case foo in $1) echo match; esac' sh '*'
above command doesn't print anything; if `*` is a result of a variable
expansion,
it matches only a literal asterisk. All the other shells I could find
(including ksh
from 2010) does print "match". I know this is a compliancy issue and zsh
doesn't
claim to be compatible with any other shell, I really wonder; was this
intended?
If yes, what was the incentive for that, what's it good for?
--
Oğuz
next reply other threads:[~2019-12-15 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-15 8:41 Oğuz [this message]
2019-12-15 10:05 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2019-12-15 11:04 ` Oğuz
2019-12-15 12:02 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2019-12-15 12:50 ` Oğuz
2019-12-15 22:49 ` Eric Cook
2019-12-15 23:27 ` Dominik Vogt
2019-12-16 0:02 ` Perry Smith
2019-12-16 0:03 ` dana
2019-12-16 0:23 ` Oğuz
2019-12-16 0:28 ` Mikael Magnusson
2019-12-16 5:25 ` Lewis Butler
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