Re: . and .. are included where they were excluded before

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/26/21 4:00 PM, kfm@plushkava.net wrote:

> One example is that gregrwm claims the following outcome for 5.0.17(1) in 
> Ubuntu 20.04:-
>
>    $   echo @(?|.?)      #. and .. are included
> . .. a .b
>
> Note that '.' is said to be among the pathnames matched. I don't see how 
> this can possibly be the case. I'm hoping that it was merely a case of 
> making a mistake in the course of performing the tests and assembling the 
> results.

That's the thing I said I would look at in my initial message.

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