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Re: Filename expansion bug
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Filename expansion bug |
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Thu, 8 Aug 2019 10:36:40 -0400 |
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On 8/8/19 10:33 AM, Janek Mi wrote:
> For some time in my scripts I was using something like this:
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> ```shell
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> shopt -s failglob
> command="echo xyz\(\)"
> $command
> ```
>
> And it was working fine. But somewhere between bash version 4 and 5 I
> realized it generates an error:
> no match: xyz\(\)
>
> with exit code equal 1.
>From just yesterday:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-08/msg00015.html
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