Subject: bash: "*" does not expand to files anymore
Package: bash
Version: 3.2-2
Severity: normal
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Hi,
Since a few days, bash does not expand * in double quotes anymore.
Example:
$ls
a b
$echo *
a b
$echo "*"
*
Before, echo "*" has always showed:
a b
I have looked at the man page. It is not clear to me if * is
expanded. The man page says:
The special parameters * and @ have special meaning when in
double quotes
(see PARAMETERS below).
and in the PARAMETERS section it says about ?* only, not about *:
* Expands to the positional parameters, starting from
one. When the
Cheers,
Eugen Dedu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 4.0.3 Debian base system
miscellaneous f
ii debianutils 2.28.5 Miscellaneous utilities
specific t
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080419-2 Shared libraries for
terminal hand
Versions of packages bash recommends:
pn bash-completion <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
--
Eugen
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