On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:59:50AM -0500, David J. Haines wrote: > When started interactively, bash sets the extglob shopt; however, that > fact seems to have been overlooked in the manpage.
This is a compile-time setting. Your vendor probably turned this on. imadev:~$ bash-4.3 imadev:~$ shopt | grep extglob extglob off imadev:~$ exit