On 6/24/19 1:53 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> On 24/06/2019 15:16, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 6/22/19 8:57 AM, Harald van Dijk wrote:
>>
>>>> But in bash5's
>>>>
>>>> files='/a/\b/??/x/*'
>>>> ls -d $files
>>>>
>>>> That \ becomes a globbing operator, so we get the same list of
>>>> files as in a literal /a/[b]/??/x/*, not a literal /a/\b/??/x/*
>>>
>>> That doesn't sound right. The backslash is removed per 2.13.1, and then the
>>> path component is just "b". This does not contain a "pattern character", so
>>> should not require search permission. I expect this to match the same thing
>>> as /a/b/??/x/*, and both in my shell and in bash that is what I see. Has
>>> this changed in one of the post-5.0 bash patches?
>>
>> Bash-5.0 patch 3 made some changes here; what version are you using?
>
> I was checking bash 5.0 without patches, but I see this same behaviour in
> bash 4.4 patch 23, 5.0 without patches, and 5.0 patch 7.
I think what you're seeing is correct.
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