The pathexp-globignore-delim.patch seems to work as advertised.
> If *a matches scratch/a, for
> example, that's a bug in the matching code I will have to identify and fix.
Yes, this is the case. Based on your reply, the examples I showed are
definitely a bug.
Thank you so much.
On 6/19/14, 6:47 PM, Ian Kelling wrote:
> The doc says "When matching a pathname, the slash character
> must always be matched explicitly." Shortly thereafter, in the next
> paragraph of the same section, GLOBIGNORE is described, which does not
> treat / as special, but this is not mentioned, and
Chet Ramey writes:
> On 6/9/14, 3:42 PM, Ian Kelling wrote:
> Yes, it's an interesting question: what exactly does pattern negation
> include? You can match all filenames beginning with a `.' by using `.'
> as the first character of the pattern, so should a negated pattern
> beginning with a `.'
