Re: Outdated example in bash manual

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:54:16 +0100
From: Carles Pina i Estany <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: =?utf-8?Q?No=C3=A9mie?= Baudouin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Outdated example in bash manual


Hi,

On 23 Jul 2026 at 17:48:38, No=C3=A9mie Baudouin wrote:
> Hello,=20
>=20
> I noticed an outdated example on this page
> <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_shell_=
glob>
> (and in the pdf page 57).
>=20
> Context:
> $ touch 1.txt 2.txt 3.c 4.h .5.txt ..6.txt
> Since bash 5.2,
> $ echo .*
> does not return:
> . .. .5.txt ..6.txt
> but
> .5.txt ..6.txt

very true

> Thank you so much for all you great work!

I don't maintain the manual, but I saw your message and made a Merge
Request: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-reference/-/merge_requests/=
25

Hopefully it will get merged in that form or similar,

--=20
Carles Pina i Estany
https://carles.pina.cat | [email protected] | [email protected]

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