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Updated SC2060 (markdown)

Vidar Holen
2019-01-13 15:26:41 -08:00
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@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ tr -cd '[:digit:]'
### Rationale:
From the shell's point of view, unquoted `[:digit:]` is glob equivalent to `[dgit:]` that matches any single character filename from the group, such as `g` or `t`, in the current directory.
From the shell's point of view, unquoted `[:digit:]` is a glob equivalent to `[dgit:]` that matches any single character filename from the group, such as `d` or `t`, in the current directory.
If someone starts learning D and creates a directory named `d` to hold the source code, the glob will be expanded and the script will end up executing `tr -cd d`, which is clearly unintended.
If someone starts learning D and creates a directory named `d` to hold the source code, the glob will be expanded and the script will end up executing `tr -cd d` instead, which is clearly unintended.
Quoting the argument prevents this, and will pass it correctly as the literal string `[:digit:]` no matter which files exist in the current directory.