On 3/15/19 10:23 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi, > > bash 5.0.0-1 on Arch Linux. I'm manipulating a variable that's intended > to hold a regular expression for vim(1), but bash thinks it fails > pathname expansion even though I see no glob meta-character within it.
Apply the first two patches, then look at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-02/msg00151.html for an explanation of the behavior. There is a patch in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-03/msg00042.html that will fix this. 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/
