Subject: bug#17450: multiplication bug

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 19:50:03 +0200

On 05/09/2014 05:51 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#expr-2-_002a-3-does-not-work

Hi Padraig,

I don't know if this was discussed before: what do you think about
adding a sentence to the FAQ that some shells allow to turn off
globbing?  E.g. in bash with 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob':

   $ ( set -o noglob && expr 2 * 2 )
   4

Have a nice day,
Berny