Re: Hidden directories breaks path expansions

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:53:39AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 3/7/19 9:42 AM, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> 
> >> There is a slightly updated version of that patch attached to this message.
> > 
> > OK ... the hidden directories do work now ... but in the test suite
> > of sed the test case sed-4.7/testsuite/subst-mb-incomplete.sh with
> > 
> >  print_ver_ sed
> > 
> >  require_en_utf8_locale_
> > 
> >  echo > in || framework_failure_
> >  printf '\233\375\200\n' > exp-out || framework_failure_
> > 
> >  LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 sed $(printf 's/^/\\L\233\375\\\200/') in > out 2> err
> > 
> >  compare exp-out out || fail=1
> >  compare /dev/null err || fail=1
> > 
> >  Exit $fail
> > 
> > does fail (YaOB).
> 
> I've attached an updated version of the patch. It will fix this. The glob
> engine shouldn't return a dequoted version of the pattern unless it
> matches something (and, based on historical behavior, maybe not even then).
> 
> Ironically, we're about to start another discussion on the POSIX mailing
> list about how backslashes in shell patterns should behave. It's always
> fun to shoot at a moving target.

It works! Thanks a lot!

Werner

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