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Re: Setting nullglob causes variables containing backslashes to be expanded to an empty string

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On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 06:18:27PM +0000, Mohamed Akram wrote:
> Bash version: GNU bash, version 5.0.7(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin18.5.0)
> 
> Example:
> 
> shopt -s nullglob
> a='\x30'
> echo $a
> 
> Expected output:
> 
> \x30
> 
> Actual output:
> 

Also happens in bash 5.0 on Debian GNU/Linux.  It does not happen in
bash 4.4 or earlier (I tried back to 3.2) on the same machine.

For the record,   echo $a   is *not* a sane way to see the contents of
your variable.   printf %s\\n "$a"   is the safest.   echo "$a"   would
be marginally acceptable in some cases.  Unquoted $a is a bad idea, which
may explain why it didn't receive enough testing to uncover whatever
this is.  No sane person would do it.

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Re: Setting nullglob causes variables containing backslashes to be expanded to an empty string Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-08-06 16:00 -0400
  Re: Setting nullglob causes variables containing backslashes to be expanded to an empty string Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 21:28 +0100
    Re: Setting nullglob causes variables containing backslashes to be expanded to an empty string Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 21:39 +0100
      Re: Setting nullglob causes variables containing backslashes to be expanded to an empty string Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 21:42 +0100

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