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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/