On 6/1/26 6:54 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 5:32 PM Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:
Because '\*' is not a glob, so filename expansion is not performed.Actually it is. Pathname expansion is performed on the result of the parameter expansion and pathname expansion interprets the current content of the word in question as pattern:
It's not, since the `*' in the word is not "treated as special" with
respect to pattern matching.
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