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On 2014-09-29 09:18, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Eric Blake (cygwin) sent the following at Saturday, September 27, 2014 2:14 AM
>> I also turned on the (undocumented) 'bash --wordexp' mode (actually,
>> that happened in 4.1.12-5, although I failed to mention it at the time),
>> which allows the C library call wordexp() to now function.
>
>  From a user standpoint, why would one want to use --wordexp?  What is the
> effect of turning on this mode?

It's not meant to be used by users.  It exists solely to be used by libc 
(cygwin) as an implementation of wordexp(3).


Yaakov


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