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"shell-expand-line" wrongly(?) expanded $'foo' to $foo

From Clark Wang <dearvoid@gmail.com>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject "shell-expand-line" wrongly(?) expanded $'foo' to $foo
Date 2020-07-01 20:48 +0800
Message-ID <mailman.755.1593607763.2574.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References <CADv8-ojoKwZknUW1CrppEBBz+-zE8P3QxxzuzmM3qLyYenxcMA@mail.gmail.com>

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See the following example (tested with bash 5.0.7):


# bind -q shell-expand-line
shell-expand-line can be invoked via "\e\C-e".

# echo $PWD      # press ESC C-e
# echo /root

# echo $( pwd )  # press ESC C-e
# echo /root

# echo $'foo'    # press ESC C-e
# echo $foo


Is this a bug?

-clark

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