On 5/22/19 9:33 AM, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 08:43:00 -0400 > From: Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> > Message-ID: <20190522124300.gz1...@eeg.ccf.org> > > | It seems to be unique to bash 5. If it's a bug fix, then I'm not > | understanding the rationale. Backslashes shouldn't be consumed during > | glob expansion. > > They should - when a pattern comes from an expansion (be that a > variable expansion, or as here, a command substitution) there needs > to be a way to indicate whether the potential magic chars are in > fact intended as magic chars, or as literals. \ is used for that.
There is more discussion in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-02/msg00151.html -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
