On 2024-06-12 10:46, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> Which ties back into those expectations from other languages that Marc 
> mentioned. It's important to remember that, unlike in those languages, 
> quotation marks are not token delimiters in the shell. They don't 
> terminate the current shell /word/ (what other languages would just 
> call a "string"); you can go in and out of quotes, switch kinds of 
> quotes, etc. as often as you like within a single word.
>
> So .*.'~undo-tree~' is still just one string, even though only part of 
> it is in quotation marks.  The part in quotes is not subject to glob 
> expansion; the part not in quotes is.

Pure curiosity, I have no problem to solve, but supposing you did want 
to break the string up, I suppose you'd have to use an array? Then 
perhaps manipulate the elements/words as desired, then recombine?