bash bug - expansion of env vars containing '?'

[Derek Martin]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:01:58AM -0500, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> 
> Michael ODonnell writes:
> 
> > Maybe it's behavior that's been broken forever and
> > they only just got around to fixing it...
> 
> I'm not so sure; I think that this bug must be somewhat recent:

I think that what mod meant was that the old behavior is considered
broken, and the new behavior is thought to fix it.  I believe he
already acknowledged that this behavior is different from the behavior
in bash 2.x and previous.

FWIW, the main comment I wanted to offer was that I think both
behaviors are useful.  Does the man page for the new version suggest a
way to make the behavior switchable?  I can not remember what behavior
historic versions of Bourne shell exhibited, and I'm curious. At the
moment I have no access to a machine from which I might make that
determination...

Anyone?

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