Re: Difference of extglob between 5.0.0(1)-release and 4.4.23(1)-release

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jan 13 2019, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> wrote:

> The pattern
>       ./$null"$dir"/
>
> is expanded (parameter expansion) to
>
>       ./@()./
>
> which does not have a "." immediately after the / and
> tus cannot match any filename (incoludeing ".") which
> starts with a '.' character.

For the same reason `*.' doesn't match `.'.  Making `@()' work differently
from `*' would be surprising.

Andreas.

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