On 6/1/26 11:24 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
On Mon, Jun 1, 2026, 11:14 Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:On 6/1/26 6:54 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 5:32 PM Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:Because '\*' is not a glob, so filename expansion is not performed.Actually it is. Pathname expansion is performed on the result of the parameter expansion and pathname expansion interprets the current content of the word in question as pattern:It's not, since the `*' in the word is not "treated as special" with respect to pattern matching.Or maybe one could say that pathname expansion is "performed," but is a no-op, per #4 of the list in 2.14.3: If a specified pattern does not contain any '*', '?' or '[' characters that will be treated as special, the pattern string shall be left unchanged
Yes, pretty much the same thing, but I like the rationale because it says
the matching doesn't take place at all if the special pattern character
isn't treated as special (just a little more straightforward).
Chet
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