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Re: Setting IFS='*' causes bash to freeze on tab completion
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Setting IFS='*' causes bash to freeze on tab completion |
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Date: |
Sat, 02 Jul 2016 12:30:54 +0200 |
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"Ibrahim M. Ghazal" <imgx64@gmail.com> 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?
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> For example:
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> IFS='*'; case "foo" in *) echo "got here";; esac
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> doesn't print "got here".
The same issue exists for the other glob special characters ? [ ] .
Andreas.
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