How to expand quoted/escaped wildcards?

[Leniks]

Problem: expand quoted wildcards with space:

# find .
.
./dir 2
./dir 2/rcs
./dir 2/startup.lst
./dir1
./dir1/rcs
./dir1/startup.lst
./rcs
./startup.lst

# a="dir1/*"

# echo $a
dir1/rcs dir1/startup.lst

# echo "$a"
dir1/*

# b="dir 2/*"

# echo $b
dir 2/*

# echo "$b"
dir 2/*

# eval "echo \"$b\""
dir 2/*


What I want is expand $b to an bash array variable of { "dir 2/rcs", "dir
2/startup.lst" }, is it possible?

Thanks very much for any help.

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