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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Parameter expansion, patterns and fnmatch
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 22:29:28 +0800
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On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:25:15AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> >> This also affects
> >>
> >>     case [a in [?) echo ok ;; *) echo bad ;; esac
> >>
> >> which should print ok.
> > 
> > Even ksh prints bad here.
> 
> So ksh is also buggy.

Good luck writing a script with an unquoted [ expecting it to be
portable :)
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