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Eli Schwartz |
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Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:09:28 -0400 |
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On 7/29/19 1:01 PM, Clint Hepner wrote:
> The ``[`` begins a valid shell pattern, so the parser continues to
> accept input until the closing ``]`` is found. Pathname expansion
> (apparently) does not apply to the first "argument" of the
> ``function`` command.
The initial workaround discovered, was to use
$ function _[ () { echo hello; }; <() _[
hello
The use of <() somehow suppresses the glitch in the same way that
quoting it does. If it were just glob expansion, then why should that be so?
--
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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