From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: Incompatibility when Zsh invoked as 'sh'
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:14:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14810.1012817672@csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ""Bart Schaefer""'s message of "Mon, 04 Feb 2002 03:46:42 GMT." <1020204034643.ZM20043@candle.brasslantern.com>
"Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> On Feb 4, 12:13am, DervishD wrote:
> }
> } Well, the error is the '[*' pattern, which zsh says is a 'bat
> } pattern'. Bash treats it as the regex 'match an opening bracket and
> } anything after it', but zsh doesn't.
>
> Nothing in section 9.3.5 allows for an unmatched left-bracket to match a
> literal bracket. The description of the "case" construct doesn't make
> any exception to this, either.
I suppose it's those shells' way of getting round the problem of treating a
single `[' as the start of a test without needing it quoted. Zsh makes an
exception in that single case only; maybe the others make an exception for
any word starting with `['. I certainly can't see any good reason for
changing.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-04 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-03 23:13 DervishD
2002-02-04 2:51 ` Dan Nelson
2002-02-04 3:46 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-04 10:14 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2002-02-04 10:06 DervishD
2002-02-04 10:07 DervishD
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