Re: echo builtin command will give the wrong value of the variable when there is a file named: 11 in the current directory

[Pierre Gaston]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Lingfei Kong <466701708@qq.com> wrote:

Another reproducer:

# c='[1][1][1]'

# touch 111

# echo $c

111

# rm 111

# echo $c

[1][1][1]

------------------ Original ------------------

From:  "Lingfei Kong";<466701708@qq.com>;

Date:  Wed, Jul 27, 2016 07:24 PM

To:  "bug-bash"<bug-bash@gnu.org>;

Subject:  echo builtin command will give the wrong value of the variable when there is a file named: 11 in the current directory

Description:

echo builtin command will give the wrong value of the variable  when there is a file named: 11 in the current directory.

Version:
GNU bash, version 4.2.45(1)-release-by_tst_tlinux20_v1004 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
GNU bash, version 4.1.2(1)-release-by_mupan_tlinux_v1004 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release-by_tst_suse_31_v1004 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
# touch 11
# c='[11761][1469504252]'
# echo $c                
11
# rm 11
# echo $c                
[11761][1469504252]

Expected results:
# touch 11
# c='[11761][1469504252]'
# echo $c                               
[11761][1469504252]


Best Regards
Lingfei

It's acutally a feature, juste like "echo *" will print the list of filenames matching *  "echo [a-z]*" will print the list of filenames starting with a letter between a and z.

[]  defines a range of character like in almost every regular _expression_.

In your case you can disable matching the filenames by quoting your expansion: echo "$c".