[arch-projects] [dbscripts] [PATCH v2 5/5] Globally set $PKGEXT to a bash extended glob representing valid choices.

[Luke Shumaker]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:11:45 -0500,
Eli Schwartz via arch-projects wrote:
> +# Check if a file exists, even if the file uses wildcards
> +is_globfile() {
> +	[[ -f $1 ]]
> +}
> +

Dave's comment on my version of this patchset applies equally to this
version:

> Frankly, this function name and comment sucks, because it says nothing
> about quoting. As I read the comment, I'm lead to believe that given a
> file "foobar" existing, I can call: __isGlobfile "foo*", and this will
> succeed. To the naive reader, you might even believe this claim based on
> the unquotedness of $1 within the -f test.

(I had the same function, with the same comment, as is_globfile in
db-functions and as __isGlobfile in common.bash)

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~ Luke Shumaker