Package: posh
Version: 0.8.5
Severity: normal

$ ls /lib/*/libc.so.*
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
$ b="*/libc.so.*"
$ ls /lib/$b
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
$ a="/lib/"   
$ ls "$a"$b
ls: cannot access /lib/*/libc.so.*: No such file or directory
$ 

$a is quoted but $b is not but it's still not expanded as it is when
/lib/ is entered directly.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, 
'experimental'), (111, 'oldstable'), (107, 'natty-updates'), (107, 'natty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages posh depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.36.1   Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.13-10    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

posh recommends no packages.

posh suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded



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