On 8/12/18 12:26 AM, Mark Polyakov wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
> A
> Description:
> A A A An extglob pattern such as `*?(anything)something_else` will
> match any string, even though it should only match strings that end
> with something_else. I suspect there are a number of other extglob
> patterns involving ?() that are buggy but have not tested extensively.
> This *only* happens on 4.3. I have also tested 4.0, 4.2, and 4.4, all
> of which parse the glob correctly.
Thanks for the report. As you noted, this was fixed in bash-4.4.
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