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This documents significant changes in the 93u+m branch of AT&T ksh93.
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For full details, see the git log at:
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https://github.com/modernish/ksh
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Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
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2020-05-13:
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- Fix BUG_CASELIT: an undocumented 'case' pattern matching misbehaviour that
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goes back to the original Bourne shell, but wasn't discovered until 2018.
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If a pattern doesn't match as a pattern, it was tried again as a literal
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string. This broke common validation use cases, e.g.:
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n='[0-9]'
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case $n in
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( [0-9] ) echo "$n is a number" ;;
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esac
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would output "[0-9] is a number" as the literal string fallback matches the
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pattern. As this misbehaviour was never documented anywhere (not for Bourne,
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ksh88, or ksh93), and it was never replicated in other shells (not even in
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ksh88 clones pdksh and mksh), it is unlikely any scripts rely on it.
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Of course, a literal string fallback, should it be needed, is trivial to
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implement correctly without this breakage:
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case $n in
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( [0-9] | "[0-9]") echo "$n is a number or the number pattern" ;;
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esac
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