From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11064 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2017 16:59:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 41746 Received: (qmail 2171 invoked by uid 1010); 22 Sep 2017 16:59:47 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from kahlil.inlv.org by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(37.59.109.123):SA:0(-1.9/5.0):. Processed in 1.786207 secs); 22 Sep 2017 16:59:47 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: martijn@inlv.org X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Subject: Re: spurious 'case' parse error To: zsh-workers@zsh.org References: <6fb7e839-48ce-51a4-1d64-bbbf498c5bfb@inlv.org> <170922084246.ZM22988@torch.brasslantern.com> From: Martijn Dekker Message-ID: <03773cae-5c1b-934c-7b9b-dd316bec9a45@inlv.org> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:59:37 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <170922084246.ZM22988@torch.brasslantern.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: nl Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Op 22-09-17 om 16:42 schreef Bart Schaefer: > That's almost certainly happening because > > case xecho in > (x|y)echo)echo ok;; > esac > > is valid syntax for zsh, so (x)echo is being parsed as a pattern and then > the closing paren is found to be missing. That makes sense. Also, when zsh is launched as 'sh', the parsing error does not occur. Report withdrawn. Sorry for the noise! - M.