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# Test for when expression has GLOB characters
$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 nhed wheel 0 Dec 21 19:29 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 nhed wheel 0 Dec 21 19:29 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 nhed wheel 0 Dec 21 19:29 c
-rw-r--r-- 1 nhed wheel 0 Dec 21 19:29 d
-rw-r--r-- 1 nhed wheel 2 Dec 21 19:30 x.txt
$ cat x.txt
*
$ IFS=$'\r\n' GLOBIGNORE='*' command eval 'XYZ=($(cat x.txt))'
$ echo "${XYZ[0]}"
*
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