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

Chet Ramey <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jun 2026 11:13:33 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
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On 6/1/26 6:54 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 5:32 PM Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Because '\*' is not a glob, so filename expansion is not performed.
>>
> 
> Actually it is. Pathname expansion is performed on the result of the
> parameter expansion and pathname expansion interprets the current
> content of the word in question as pattern:

It's not, since the `*' in the word is not "treated as special" with
respect to pattern matching.

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