Re: shell limitation

[Werner LEMBERG]

>  > Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>  >> Some shells still search `*.info'.
> 
>  > Sorry, I misunderstood you.  But this is news to me.  Which shells
>  > don't expand *.info in for-loops?  (It worked in Unix version 7.  :-)
> 
>  > Is this some IFS-related problem?
> 
> Werner is probably referring the case where there are no *.info, and
> it is indeed well known that in such cases globing can indeed give
> either nothing, or the pattern.

This is it!  Sorry for the confusion.  I misinterpreted a log file.
What Akim is saying should be documented.


    Werner