Re: Unreadable directories aren't included in glob expansion

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 7:52 AM Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
> At a practical level, the difference may have arisen because a / not in
> a glob qualifier is usually present in order to select files within the
> directory, which won't work if the directory isn't readable.  A glob
> qualifier, on the other hand, always applies to the final path segment.
>


I think this is exactly it.  foo/<TAB> is like asking to select from among
the matches of foo/* and if foo is not readable, there are none.