On Jan 09 2020, Mickael KENIKSSI wrote:

> I understand this may not sound of primary importance for you since they
> are canonically equivalent, but sometimes what we really all care about is
> the path as a literal string (be it well- or ill-formed), and not the
> filesystem object it points to.

But filename expansion is not operating on literal strings, it is
operating on existing filesystem objects.

Andreas.

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