Re: unquoted expansion not working (was Re: Not missing, but very hard to see)

2019-12-15 Thread L A Walsh
On 2019/12/14 15:12, Robert Elz wrote: From:L A Walsh | it could break existing scripts that Scripts _/should /_not be using brace expansion in the first place, -- "Should" is about wishful thinking, not reality. What you or I think "should" be done may be depressing

Re: unquoted expansion not working (was Re: Not missing, but very hard to see)

2019-12-15 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 12/14/19 5:48 AM, L A Walsh wrote: >> If on the other hand Chet decides that the man page's wording is not >> accurate, then the issue about whether to quote punctuation characters >> becomes irrelevant.  The generation of punctuation characters is an >> unexpected consequence, and the answer is