jo...@bec.de (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes: >touch 'foo bar' >ls foo<TAB>
Pressing TAB after foo yields:
$ touch 'foo bar'
$ ls foo\ bar
foo bar
But
$ touch 'foo*bar'
$ ls foo<TAB><TAB>
foo bar foo*bar
$ ls foo*<TAB>bar
foo bar foo*bar
Somewhere sh knows that a space needs quoting but not a '*'. It
also doesn't understand quotes on input:
$ rm foo\<SPACE><TAB>
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