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Native globbing: character-individual backtick escaping of wildcard metacharacters is not respected #18038

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See also (the inverse problem): #10683

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On Unix-like platforms, unquoted arguments that look like globbing (wildcard) patterns are automatically resolved to matching paths when calling external programs.

While single- and double-quoting can be used to suppress this behavior, using character-individual backtick escaping does not:

/bin/echo `*

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*

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(list of file and subdirectory names in the current directory)

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PowerShell Core 7.3.0-preview.7 on Unix-like platforms.

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