>I read this as saying that it's a requirement on the application to ensure
>that character classes are correctly formed, and it's unspecified behavior
>if they're not.
>
>So you're right: people should not count on shells treating improperly-
>formed character classes as literal characters.
Thank
On 5/17/17 10:52 AM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
> Then in "9.3.5 RE Bracket Expression"
> (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2008edition/basedefs/V1_chap09.html#tag_09_03_05),
>
> The character sequences "[." , "[=" , and "[:" (
> followed by a , , or ) shall be special insi
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Zoltán Herczeg wrote:
[...]
> bash version: GNU bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
> This command hangs in any directory on my machine (I don't have a directory
> without a dot file):
>
> ls @(@()).
Yeah, I can reproduce the problem with bash 4
