On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 22:55 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > I'd say, report this as a bug and see where it leads. It's certainly not > expected behaviour even if it is intentional.
One-line reproducer: case x"" in x) echo matches x;; x?) echo matches x? but not x;; esac I notice the bash-4.2 CHANGES file[1] mentions something like this in the changes from alpha to beta: "b. Fixed a bug that caused partially-quoted words that were not subject to word splitting to retained quoted NULLs." Maybe that's not as fixed as they thought? -w [1] http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/CHANGES -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel