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Don't perform pathname expansion on quoted strings #24

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emersion opened this issue Aug 12, 2018 · 1 comment
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Don't perform pathname expansion on quoted strings #24

emersion opened this issue Aug 12, 2018 · 1 comment
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$ mkdir "*"
$ touch "*/thing"
$ ls "*/"*
'*/thing'
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emersion commented Aug 31, 2018 •
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Related: don't perform field splitting and pathname expansion on parameter expansion results in double quotes.

$ a='*'
$ echo "$a"
*

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shell/word: preserve AST in split_fields
2a9e336 
Instead of converting fields to strings, keep them as words. This is necessary
for preventing pathname expansion from expanding quoted words.

References: #24
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