Re: Inconsistent handling of patterns with backslah (`\`) escaping

Two other things I should have included in the previous message:

Nothing changes if a word is treated as a glob, and subjected to
filename expansion, and fails to match (in bash, depending on whatever
options control the behaviour in that case) - in "standard" mode, the
original word is retained unchanged.

And second, the best way to write a literal * in a filename, is [*]
not \* ... there's no question but that [*] is a glob, which matches
a literal * and nothing else.

kre