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  Re: Filename expansion bug Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-08-08 10:38 -0400

#15313 — Re: Filename expansion bug

On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 04:33:16PM +0200, Janek Mi wrote:
> For some time in my scripts I was using something like this:
> 
> ```shell
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> shopt -s failglob
> command="echo xyz\(\)"
> $command
> ```
> 
> And it was working fine. But somewhere between bash version 4 and 5 I
> realized it generates an error:
> no match: xyz\(\)

This looks just like another recent thread.  See Chet's response here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-08/msg00015.html


And my personal response for this variant of the issue: stop putting
shell commands in string variables and then trying to run them with
unquoted parameter expansion.  See:

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/050

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