On 8/22/18 3:57 AM, Michal Pesa wrote:
> Hello, I have encountered a strange behavior of nested extended globs:
> 
> $ echo *
> 0000.txt 000.txt 00.txt 0.txt a.txt b.txt c.txt
> $ echo !(0.txt)
> 0000.txt 000.txt 00.txt a.txt b.txt c.txt
> $ echo !(+(0).txt)
> . .. a.txt b.txt c.txt
> 
> The last example correctly excludes the files but why are "." ".." being
> printed?

This was changed back in January as the result of a discussion started by

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-12/msg00074.html

Chet

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