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Does a wildcard inside double-quotes glob?

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Mar 15, 20265852 views
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On a "standard BASH" does a wildcard inside double-quotes glob? For example: would that, or wouldn't that work on bash? I was told Ubuntu shipped with a bash variant that doesn't conform to POSIX or BASH. Is that true?

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$ touch abc
$ ls "*abc*"

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Short answer: no Long answer from man bash: Enclosing characters in double quotes preserves the literal value of all characters within the quotes, with the exception of $, `, \ So: Of course when talking about double quotes and asterisks there is an…

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