Re: Bug#1142823: Outdated example in bash manual

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thanks

Hi,

EXcuse me missing this incoming mail.

I actually saw MR and merged it via salsa web interface just before finding=
 this
bug report.

Next update should fix this.

Osamu


On Sun, 2026-07-26 at 19:08 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Package: debian-reference
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> Turning this into an bugreport, so it does not lost.
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> Am 23. Juli 2026 23:54:16 MESZ schrieb Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.=
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> > Hi,
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> > On 23 Jul 2026 at 17:48:38, No=C3=A9mie Baudouin wrote:
> > > Hello,=20
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> > > I noticed an outdated example on this page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).
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> > > 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
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> > very true
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> > > Thank you so much for all you great work!
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> > 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
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> > Hopefully it will get merged in that form or similar,
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