On 1/26/21 2:34 PM, gregrwm wrote:

you're calling .. an explicit match to .?

Yes: the leading `.' is explicitly included.

i'd interpret explicit match to mean .. wouldn't match anything other than itself (notwithstanding it's been otherwise for over a decade)

That's not a glob pattern. There are patterns that can match `.' and `..';
`.*' still matches both, for instance.

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