On 26/01/2021 20:49, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 1/26/21 3:27 PM, k...@plushkava.net wrote:
I'm still worried about some of the curious results shown by your
original post but I haven't had a chance to test the same platforms yet.
Don't be. CentOS is running a version of bash-4.2 (without even all of
the patches applied); that version was released more than ten years ago
and the
changes we're talking about here came in between bash-4.2 and bash-4.3.
Thanks, Chet. Still, the original post mentions an anomaly or two that
supposedly apply to more recent versions (4.4.19 and 5.0.17) and it is
those that have been bothering me especially. I called them out in my
original reply.
One example is that gregrwm claims the following outcome for 5.0.17(1)
in Ubuntu 20.04:-
$ echo @(?|.?) #. and .. are included
. .. a .b
Note that '.' is said to be among the pathnames matched. I don't see how
this can possibly be the case. I'm hoping that it was merely a case of
making a mistake in the course of performing the tests and assembling
the results.
--
Kerin Millar
