In article <200111030100.RAA27059@zen.crufty.net>,
Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net> wrote:
>
>If you make the case statement:
>
>"a" )
>	echo a
>	;;
>
>it works as expected.
>
>Aliases are totally evil in anything but an interactive
>shell.  I think the script as is, is failing in the prescribed manner
>give the alias.

Yes, but: all the rest of the shells worked without the quotes. Only ash needed
them. So it is a bug and it was fixed.

christos