First of all, I advise certain readers to read carefully before jumping to any
conclusions. Certain forum participants seem to have a problem of reading too
fast when
reading my posts.
Second, I *think* this is a bug, but I won't be too surprised to find that
there is some
clause somewhere in the man page or elsewhere that explains why it is not-a-bug.
Observe:
$ mkdir Sugar
$ cd Sugar
$ touch Foo_{0,1}{1..5}
$ ls -lsa
total 6
1 drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 1024 May 2 08:14 .
5 drwxr-xr-x 9 user root 5120 May 2 08:14 ..
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 May 2 08:14 Foo_01
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 May 2 08:14 Foo_02
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 May 2 08:14 Foo_03
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 May 2 08:14 Foo_04
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 May 2 08:14 Foo_05
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 May 2 08:14 Foo_11
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 May 2 08:14 Foo_12
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 May 2 08:14 Foo_13
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 May 2 08:14 Foo_14
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 May 2 08:14 Foo_15
{ This next works as expected }
$ GLOBIGNORE='Foo_0*';echo Foo*
Foo_11 Foo_12 Foo_13 Foo_14 Foo_15
{ As does this }
$ unset GLOBIGNORE;echo Foo*
Foo_01 Foo_02 Foo_03 Foo_04 Foo_05 Foo_11 Foo_12 Foo_13 Foo_14 Foo_15
{ This fails to do what we want, but it is not unexpected }
$ GLOBIGNORE='Foo_0*' echo Foo*
Foo_01 Foo_02 Foo_03 Foo_04 Foo_05 Foo_11 Foo_12 Foo_13 Foo_14 Foo_15
{ But this one should work, but doesn't }
$ GLOBIGNORE='Foo_0*' bash5 -c 'echo "$GLOBIGNORE" "--->" Foo*'
Foo_0* ---> Foo_01 Foo_02 Foo_03 Foo_04 Foo_05 Foo_11 Foo_12 Foo_13 Foo_14
Foo_15
$
Now, each result is reasonable, except the last one.
In the last test, we set GLOBIGNORE in the environment of a new bash process,
and verify
that it is there (via the echo), but yet it still expands to match all the
files; the
value of GLOBIGNORE is ignored.
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