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davidcarlisle authored and josephwright committed Mar 11, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -230,8 +230,12 @@ \section{Wildcard expansion handling\label{sec:wildcard}}
\texttt{l3sys-query} will strip exactly one set of |'| characters around each
argument before further processing.

It is not possible to use |"| quotes at all in the argument passed to
|l3sys-query| from \TeX, as the \TeX\ system removes all |"| in |\input|
while handling space quoting.

Restricted shell escape prevents shell expansion of wildcards entirely. On
non-Windows systems, it does this by replacing all \verb|"| by |'| and ensuring
non-Windows systems, it does this by ensuring
that each argument is |'| quoted to ensure further expansion.
Thus a \TeX{} call such as
\begin{verbatim}
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