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

Chet Ramey <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jun 2026 10:39:03 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 6/1/26 9:59 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/1/26 4:08 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>>
>>>> Because '\*' is not a glob, so filename expansion is not performed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If this is not a glob, I expect '\' to be stripped (quote removal)
>>> before the result is used in the command.
>>
>> Quote removal doesn't apply to the results of expansion, only to quoting
>> characters in the original word.
>>
> 
> There is no result of expansion as no expansion was performed because
> bash decided that the original word had quoted characters and skipped
> expansion.

What? The `pattern' is the result of a variable expansion.


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