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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] shell globbing (was Re: Beginner help request)


From: Florian Weimer
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] shell globbing (was Re: Beginner help request)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:46:17 +0100
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Adam Spiers wrote:

> Yeah.  FYI:
> 
>     pdksh% echo *.nothere
>     *.nothere
>     pdksh% echo $?
>     0
> 
> Broken and apparently unfixable.

It's not broken, it's just surprising (to you).  POSIX requires this
behavior:

| If the pattern contains an invalid bracket expression or does not match
| any existing filenames or pathnames, the pattern string shall be left
| unchanged.




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