Re: PATCH] unquoted_glob_pattern_p: better recognition

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/12/23 7:11 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 9:57 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > On 9/26/23 2:25 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> > > A CTLESC-escaped character should be treated as such even if it follows an
> > > unquoted backslash, same as in quote_string_for_globbing:
> >
> > Thanks for the report and patch.
>
> Sorry I guess this part was incomplete, based on your earlier comment in [1].
>
> If we want to preserve the behavior of unquoted backslash causing a following
> quoted character to become unquoted after quote_string_for_globbing:
>
> $ B=\\ bash-5.2 -O failglob -c ': $B"*"'
> bash-5.2: line 1: no match: \*
>
> then unquoted_glob_pattern_p needs to recognize that circumstance.

Thanks for the update.

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