On Mon, Jun 1, 2026, 11:14 Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 6/1/26 6:54 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 5:32 PM Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> >> Because '\*' is not a glob, so filename expansion is not performed.
> >>
> >
> > Actually it is. Pathname expansion is performed on the result of the
> > parameter expansion and pathname expansion interprets the current
> > content of the word in question as pattern:
>
> It's not, since the `*' in the word is not "treated as special" with
> respect to pattern matching.
Or maybe one could say that pathname expansion is "performed," but is a
no-op, per #4 of the list in 2.14.3:
If a specified pattern does not contain any '*', '?' or '['
characters that will be treated as special, the pattern string
shall be left unchanged
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_19_14_03
