Re: expand: Do not quote backslashes in unquoted parameter expansion

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:52:57AM +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> 
> I seriously cannot understand the logic of pushing a break from traditional
> ash behaviour and from all shells apart from bash, giving POSIX as a reason
> for doing it, and then giving the behaviour of all those other shells as a
> reason for not doing it properly.

It's logical for dash because this aligns the behaviour of pathname
expansion with case pattern matching.

Cheers,
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