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Diffstat (limited to 'man7/glob.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/glob.7 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/glob.7 b/man7/glob.7 index 41c582ce0c..4314a45d89 100644 --- a/man7/glob.7 +++ b/man7/glob.7 @@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ Globbing is applied on each of the components of a pathname separately. A \(aq/\(aq in a pathname cannot be matched by a \(aq?\(aq or \(aq*\(aq wildcard, or by a range like "\fI[.\-0]\fP". -A range cannot contain an -explicit \(aq/\(aq character; this would lead to a syntax error. +A range containing an explicit \(aq/\(aq character is syntactically incorrect. +(POSIX requires that syntactically incorrect patterns are left unchanged.) If a filename starts with a \(aq.\(aq, this character must be matched explicitly. |