Re: extglob and ()/{}

[Peng Yu]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 9:59 AM Daniel Mills <danielmills1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 10:56 AM Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So the bottomline is not to use `shopt -s extglob` in () and {}
>> blocks? If one wants to use `shopt -s extglob`, it must be outside of
>> () and {} blocks?
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> It can be used in those blocks,

By `shopt -s extglob`, I mean this text literally. But by "it", I
think that you mean the option itself instead of the text literally.
So we are talking about the same thing?

> but it must be declared outside of them. And you cannot say use a subshell to 
> make the option revert afterwards.



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Regards,
Peng