Re: compgen -f failing on directory containing single quote

[Freddy Vulto]

On 091213 05:13, DennisW wrote:
> However, with quoting, these work:
> 
> compgen -f "a\'b/"
> compgen -f 'a\"b/'
> 
> or using a variable:
> 
> dir="a\'b/"; compgen -f $dir

Both do not work at my machine?  Are you sure you don't have a directory
`ab' besides `a\'b'?  That's whap happened to me too...
It seems compgen is leaving out the quote out erroneously:

    $ mkdir a\'b 
    $ touch a\'b/c
    $ mkdir ab 
    $ touch ab/e
    $ compgen -f a\'b/
    ab/e     # Should be a\'b/c

Freddy Vulto
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