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Re: shell limitation
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: shell limitation |
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Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:28:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
> 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.