Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 12:09:22 +0100 From: Mickael KENIKSSI <k.mick...@gmail.com> Message-ID: <CAJV=ESHn1G2+9FSdtpTPT+CtqahNMiWJtRTE71PagS=h+2v...@mail.gmail.com>
| zsh (and ksh) provide the expected result: As far as I can tell, all shells except bash preserve the null components, regardless of whether or not pattern chars appear in filenames to the right or left of the last/first '/'. I don't think it is a good idea to rely on any specific behaviour here though - about the only string it makes sense to compare the results of a pathname expansion with is the initial pattern (considered as a string) and even there extreme care is required (particularly if you don't control the pattern). That said, I also see no particularly good reason why bash should be the outlier here. kre