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Re: nullglob is documented incorrectly


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: nullglob is documented incorrectly
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:22:54 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

On Nov 06 2023, Chet Ramey wrote:

> If nullglob is set, the non-matching pattern expands to the null string,
> which is removed by word splitting.

Since filename expansion happens after word splitting, this cannot be
true.

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