[lordmauve]

> However the following is fine: > > case $a in > > No field splitting occurs here

This kind of bullshit is how I made a career rewriting people's buggy shell scripts in Python

[kstrauser]

Wow, no kidding. I’ve been writing little shell scripts to do random things for literally decades and this is the first time I heard about it.

I also rewrite my stuff in Python as soon as it becomes nontrivial.