Is there an easy way to set nullglob for one glob

Question

In bash, if you do this:

mkdir /tmp/empty
array=(/tmp/empty/*)

you find that array now has one element, \"/tmp/empty/*\"

Answer 1

Unset it when done:

shopt -u nullglob

And properly (i.e. storing the previous state):

shopt -u | grep -q nullglob && changed=true && shopt -s nullglob
... do whatever you want ...
[ $changed ] && shopt -u nullglob; unset changed