Re: Some globstar patterns produce duplicate entries and a null filename

[Roman Rakus]

On 12/01/2012 04:41 PM, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> GNU bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
>
> Take the following example, assumed to be run in an empty directory:
>
> $ mkdir a
> $ echo **
> a
> $ echo **/**
>   a a
> $ echo **/**/**
>   a a a
>
> I would expect the result to be just 'a' in all cases.
>
> You also get back a null filename, as shown by
>
> $ for f in **/**/**; do echo "'$f'"; done
> ''
> 'a'
> 'a'
> 'a'
>
> /Ulf
I can't reproduce it on my Fedora with bash 4.2.10 nor 4.2.39. Tried 
turn on and off extglob shell option.
Can you please resend your report with `bashbug' script? Or at least say 
which linux distribution you are using?

RR