On Jun 01 2026, Duncan Roe wrote:

> There's actually a real bug in here:
>
> | 16:25:38$ bar='\**'
> | 16:25:43$ echo $bar
> | \**
> | 16:25:51$ touch '*'
> | 16:26:08$ echo $bar
> | *
>
>
> The behaviour of `echo $bar` changed after `touch '*'`.

File name expansion always depends on the contents of the file system.

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