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

This is just a tiny bit better than your original suggestion:

local nullglob=$(shopt -p nullglob) ; shopt -s nullglob

... do whatever you want ...

$nullglob ; unset nullglob