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

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  Setting nullglob causes variables containing backslashes to be expanded to an empty string Mohamed Akram <mohd.akram@outlook.com> - 2019-08-06 18:18 +0000

#15300 — Setting nullglob causes variables containing backslashes to be expanded to an empty string

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:

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