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Re: !(.pattern) can match . and .. if dotglob is enabled
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: !(.pattern) can match . and .. if dotglob is enabled |
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Sat, 19 Jun 2021 14:05:04 -0400 |
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On 6/17/21 3:53 PM, Nora Platiel wrote:
On 2021-06-15 10:19 Chet Ramey wrote:
Or rather,
to never generate . or .. as a pathname component via globbing.
I don't think it's useful -- and it's certainly incompatible -- to make
an explicit pattern like `.?' ignore `..'.
I think it would be most useful. A better design.
It's far too late to relitigate that decision, which dates back to at
least the original Bourne shell and probably much earlier (I do not
have earlier versions available for testing right now).
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
- Re: !(.pattern) can match . and .. if dotglob is enabled, (continued)
Re: !(.pattern) can match . and .. if dotglob is enabled, Nora Platiel, 2021/06/06
Re: !(.pattern) can match . and .. if dotglob is enabled, Ilkka Virta, 2021/06/06