On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:26:12AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:20:42AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > env |grep [-]g > > Fails if there is a file named -g in the current directory, as that > matches the unquoted glob and causes it to expand. Also fails if failglob > is turned on, whether the file exists or not (fails differently in the > two cases). > > Also fails if nullglob is turned on, but that is definitely not > recommended in interactive shells. > Quite right. In my haste I forgot the quotes:
env |grep '[-]g' -- Roberto C. Sánchez
