On 11/29/11 9:53 AM, Yongzhi Pan wrote:
> Producing the bug:
>
> tux@dell:~$ shopt -s extglob
> tux@dell:~$ shopt -u dotglob
> tux@dell:~$ ls -d *(.*)
> ls: cannot access *(.*): No such file or directory
> tux@dell:~$ touch '*(.*)'
> tux@dell:~$ ls -d *(.*)
> *(.*)
>
> I think even if dotglob is unset *(.*) should still matches all dotfiles.
Thanks for the report. This turned into a rather more complicated fix
than I anticipated. The fix will be in the next release of bash.
Chet
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