Re: No filename expansion in shell-expand-line

[Martin Schulte]

Sorry, I falied to copy and paste R*, the last line is replaced by

ls --color=auto echo {a..c} ~root xterm-256color 2024-01-12 42 /dev/fd/63 hello 
R*

> Hello,
> 
> from the documentation I understand that shell-expand-line (ESC CTRL-E) 
> should do alias expansion, history expansion, brace expansion, tilde 
> expansion, shell parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic 
> expansion, process substitution (if supported by the operation system), word 
> splitting, filename expansion and quote removal.
> 
> $ echo $BASH_VERSION
> 5.2.15(1)-release
> $ echo R*
> README
> $ echo
> 
> $ ls !! {a..c} ~root $TERM $(date +%F) $((6*7)) <(cat /etc/passwd) "hello" R*
> 
> After pressing ESC CTRL-E the last line is replaced by:
> 
> ls --color=auto echo {a..c} ~root xterm-256color 2024-01-12 42 /dev/fd/63 
> hello
> 
> So, everything works fine execept filename expansion, which seems to be 
> missing.
> 
> Or do I understand something wrong?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Martin