On Sep 24 2025, Chet Ramey wrote:

> On 9/22/25 10:19 AM, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1
>> index 8c6b51a4..5b180065 100644
>> --- a/doc/bash.1
>> +++ b/doc/bash.1
>> @@ -2513,6 +2513,8 @@ A filename whose suffix matches one of the entries in
>>   is excluded from the list of matched filenames.
>>   A sample value is
>>   .Q .o:\*~ .
>
> And, by the way, the example is wrong. The values in FIGNORE are not
> patterns, so the `*' will likely not match.

\*~ produces the content of the string variable ~.

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