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Re: Could we have GLOBIGNORE ignore . and .. in subdirectories, too?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Could we have GLOBIGNORE ignore . and .. in subdirectories, too?
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:50:19 -0400
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On 5/28/20 12:02 PM, Ilkka Virta wrote:

> Could it be possible to extend GLOBIGNORE or some other option to have
> globs like  foo/.*   not generate  . and .. as the final part of the path
> regardless of the level they are in?


It seems reasonable to have GLOBIGNORE discard a pathname whose terminal
component is `.' or `..'. It's consistent with the idea that GLOBIGNORE
ignores a filename component of `.' or `..'.

Chet

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