On 6/22/19 8:57 AM, Harald van Dijk wrote:
>> But in bash5's
>>
>> files='/a/\b/??/x/*'
>> ls -d $files
>>
>> That \ becomes a globbing operator, so we get the same list of
>> files as in a literal /a/[b]/??/x/*, not a literal /a/\b/??/x/*
>
> That doesn't sound right. The backslash is removed per 2.13.1, and then the
> path component is just "b". This does not contain a "pattern character", so
> should not require search permission. I expect this to match the same thing
> as /a/b/??/x/*, and both in my shell and in bash that is what I see. Has
> this changed in one of the post-5.0 bash patches?
Bash-5.0 patch 3 made some changes here; what version are you using?
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