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Re: Inconsitent treatment of * (globbing)
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Inconsitent treatment of * (globbing) |
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Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:45:56 +0100 |
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Pascal Wittmann <mail@pascal-wittmann.de> writes:
> The way that "*" is treated for globbing is not consitent. Normaly a
> regular expression "*"
> would match all characters, but for the sake of usability it doesn't
> include the files
> which starts with a dot (dotfiles) and the file "..".
".." is not in any way special here. It is just a file that happens to
start with a dot.
> But if I use the expression ".*" in bash, I would expect from the
> behaviour of "*", that
> ".*" don't include the file "..".
".." is matched by ".*" because it starts with a dot.
Andreas.
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