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- From: stratton@cup.hp.com (Jim Stratton)
- Subject: Re: /bin/sh on HP-UX on HP-9000, case problem
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:56:24 GMT
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- Dennis Smith (quenton@Cherniak.ON.CA) wrote:
- |
- | I just started using an HP-9000. I had to port a few hundres
- | utilities, some C and some shell scripts. I found that most of my
- | shell scripts failed. The problem appeared to be statements of the form:
- |
- | case "abc?def" in
- | *"?"*) echo OK;;
- | esac
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- This is a known problem in the 8.x releases of HP-UX. It is fixed in 9.0.
- A patch is also available.
-
- - Jim Stratton
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- stratton@cup.hp.com
- Open Systems Software Division, Hewlett-Packard Company
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