tags 56888 + notabug close 56888 stop On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 9:08 AM Carlo Arenas <care...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This behaviour is expected and described in the manual (albeit it > might be a good candidate for a FAQ) : > > https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html#Usage > > Even before grep gets to see the expression, the shell would try to > match it and expand it as needed, which is obviously not what you want > for your usecase and why it would be better if you quote it. > > time echo "axyz" | grep '[abcd]xyz' > > should behave as you expect, regardless of what the current directory has.
Thanks. By the above, I've marked this as "not a bug" and closed the auto-generated ticket.
