[thayne]

The behavior of bash would be to produce "a/c" and "b/c", even if both files don't exist

[sgbeal]

> The behavior of bash would be to produce "a/c" and "b/c", even if both files don't exist

In bash patterns like {a,b} aren't glob-expansion expansions, they're string operations, and those resolve before glob expansions.

You can confirm this with: ls /{nope,tmp}

[frizlab]

zsh too