Prevent * to Be Expanded in the Bash Script

Prevent * to be expanded in the bash script

you need to escape your variables, too:

Print "$var"

And in your function:

echo "$1"

Bash intercepting wildcard in script

Try using the -r flag with read:

tail -n+2 text.file | while IFS=$'\t' read -r x y z
do
    echo "${z}"
done

From the read man page:

-r Do not treat a backslash character in any special way. Consider each backslash to be part of the input line.

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