Re: Inconsitent treatment of * (globbing)

[Stephane CHAZELAS]

2011-01-31, 11:44(-05), Greg Wooledge:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:58:56PM +0100, Pascal Wittmann wrote:
>>   But if I use the expression ".*" in bash, I would expect from the
>> behaviour of "*", that
>>   ".*" don't include the file "..". But the fact is, that it does in bash.
>
> This is done for compatibility with all the other shells.
[...]

All the other shells... but zsh and pdksh based ones (mksh,
posh...) and shells like ksh93 can be globally modified by
setting the FIGNORE environment variable (a bug and potential
security vulnerability if you ask me).

I agree with the OP that .* expanding "." and ".." is not
useful but I suspect it is required by POSIX.

-- 
Stephane