Re: Nested extglob outputs "." ".."

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Nested extglob outputs "." ".."
Date	2018-08-22 08:31 -0400
Message-ID	<mailman.5404.1534941091.1292.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 09:57:19AM +0200, Michal Pesa wrote:
> Hello, I have encountered a strange behavior of nested extended globs:
> 
> $ echo *
> 0000.txt 000.txt 00.txt 0.txt a.txt b.txt c.txt
> $ echo !(0.txt)
> 0000.txt 000.txt 00.txt a.txt b.txt c.txt
> $ echo !(+(0).txt)
> . .. a.txt b.txt c.txt
> 
> The last example correctly excludes the files but why are "." ".." being
> printed?

This appears to be fixed already in bash 5.0-alpha.

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Re: Nested extglob outputs "." ".." Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-22 08:31 -0400

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