On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 10:04 AM Andreas Schwab <sch...@suse.de> wrote:
> The command is doing exactly what it is documented to do, that is do all > of the shell word expansions. > Quote Removal shows up as a subsection of the Shell Expansion section in the manual, but it doesn't show up in the list of expansions at the beginning of that section.[1] Additionally, we see the following: > After these expansions are performed, quote characters present in the original word are removed unless they have been quoted themselves (quote removal). and > After all expansions, quote removal (see Quote Removal) is performed. Clearly setting quote removal apart from the word expansions listed in that section. Whether it makes sense, building from that, that some backslashes would need to be added, like I said in my earlier email, I don't know. But quote removal should not occur. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Expansions.html
