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Re: [PATCH] doc: Document another pitfall of shell pattern matching


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Document another pitfall of shell pattern matching
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 05:11:51 -0700
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Thanks, I installed that, along with the attached followup which documents some other globbing pitfalls.

By the way, brace expansion is not part of globbing: it's a prepass over the shell command and it operates independently of file names. Brace expansion does not work when doing pattern matching in 'case' statements, for example. So I adjusted the example to not imply that brace expansion cares whether files exist.

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