Re: globstar: **/foo*/ matches all directories, even ones not named foo*

[Chet Ramey]

Anders Kaseorg wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 33
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       With the globstar option enabled, bash seems to misinterpret
>       other wildcard path components between a **/ and the last / as
>       matching any path, even if the path doesn't match the
>       wildcard.

Thanks for the report.  I will release a fix for this as a patch to
bash-4.0.

Chet

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