Posting it here something that is puzzling me; upgrading an application server from Jessie to Stretch broke a bash script.
Upon investigation, we narrowed it to a change of behaviour of the cd command. I am not discussing here if what the script is doing is a good idea, or if it could be improved, I am just focusing in a behaviour change /awareness of changes mindset.
Jessie
$echo *-*
xxxx-1.0b xxxx-run
$cd *-*
cd works and cds to the first directory ; actually *-run is a symbolic link to the same directory.
Stretch
$echo *-*
xxxx-1.0b xxxx-run
$cd *-*
bash: cd: too many arguments
bash is 4.3.30(1) in Jessie, and 4.4.12(1) in Stretch.
Why the change in behaviour between Jessie and Stretch?