Re: [PATCH] expand: Fix naked backslah leakage

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 01:12:19PM +0100, Harald van Dijk wrote:
>
> The correct result here, I believe, is <\*bc>. The backslash means the next
> character is taken as literal, even if that character is already also taken
> as literal because of the quoting. There is nothing to cause the backslash
> to be taken literally. The result should be that only a leading * is removed
> from $a.

While I do see the logic in your reasoning, no other shell implements
this behaviour:

*sh -c 'a="*bc"; b="\\"; c="*"; echo "<${a##$b"$c"}>"'

always produces <*bc> across all shells on my system.

Thanks,
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