On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 11:15:50AM +0100, Emanuele Torre wrote: > Today, a user in the #bash IRC channel of libera.chat, misunderstood how > nullglob is supposed to work because is documented incorrectly in the > man page: > > 'nullglob' > If set, Bash allows filename patterns which match no files to > expand to a null string, rather than themselves. > > globs expand to nothing if there are no matches with nullglob set, not > to the null/empty string. > > o/ > emanuele6
It may even be better to say that the patterns that do not match any names are *removed*. That way one avoids the complications and ambiguities of explaining what the pattern expands or not expands to. -- Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri Uppsala, Sweden .
