Re: variable expanding to `*` matches a literal `*` in case cond. construct

[Oğuz <oguzismailuysal@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 3:02 PM Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri <
andreas.kahari@xxxxxx> wrote:

>
> The fact that zsh does not (by default) perform splitting nor globbing
> on unquoted variables is a well known feature of this shell and one of
> the things that sets it apart from more conventional POSIX-like shells
> like bash or ksh.
>
>
Well-known by experienced users. Since MacOS switched to zsh, and MacOS's
userbase mostly consists of people who have no idea what they're doing when
it comes to command line; I think it's not unreasonable to expect them to
complain about how shell scripts/commands they find on the internet doesn't
work on their precious cheese graters. That's my concern, maybe I'm wrong,
I don't know.


> Wanting to write scripts that "works with any shell" is IMHO a
> misdirected efforti (why would you want to run code written for one
> language with the interpreter for another?).


I agree with that, but still, most shells out there are compatible with
each other to some extent. I just expected zsh too to be so.

However, since this is
> something that people seems to want to do, zsh provides emulation of sh:
>
    $ zsh --emulate sh -c 'case foo in $1) echo match; esac' sh '*'
>     match
>
> See the "emulate" built-in utility in the zshbuiltins(1) manual.
>

I guess this is a new feature. The latest version available on Ubuntu 18.04
repo doesn't have such an option as `--emulate`, you need to call `emulate`
from within the script; which is even worse.

Once again, I'm dissapointed with and somewhat annoyed by zsh.

Thanks again.

-- 
Oğuz