Re: [Help-bash] Why `echo !(*.l).c` behaves different depending on the context?

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/9/19 8:03 AM, Peng Yu wrote:

> I solved it by using `eval`. Nevertheless, I don't think this part of
> the bash grammar is well designed. But I am not sure if there is an
> easy way to improve it in the current parsing framework.

How would you propose to "improve it" given the requirement that compound
commands are parsed in their entirety before any part is executed?


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