ash: wildcard malfunction (?) with quotes

Casper Ti. Vector caspervector at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 02:55:40 UTC 2018


> $ busybox ash -c "echo '/dev/nul'*"
> /dev/nul*

I do not know what POSIX says about this; but even if the behaviour does
not violate POSIX, I think most of us can agree that this is very
counter-intuitive and results in significant inconvenience?

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