Re: Inconsistent handling of patterns with backslah (`\`) escaping

[Duncan Roe]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 10:53:08AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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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Oh, right :\