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Article #304Bug/Feature in globbing
From: Brian Fox
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1989 18:29
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1989 18:29
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Date: 12 Jul 89 13:22:31 GMT From: cica!ctrsol!sdsu!polyslo!indri!engr!wwc@cis.ohio-state.edu (William W. Carlson) Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Sender: bug-bash-request@prep.ai.mit.edu I really like bash a great deal, but one "feature" I find quite annoying. Whenever globbing fails (i.e. no match), it leaves the unglobbed string as is. (i.e. if I type "ls foo* bar*" and there is a file in the current directory called foo.c but none starting with "bar", ls gets passed "ls foo.c bar*" and of course says "bar* not found." This feature is particularly disturbing in aliases. Do people think this is a "bug" or a "feature"? If it is a bug, I'd really like it fixed. If it is a feature, I'd like for there to be some way (perhaps set -no_bogus_globbing) to disable it. Bill Carlson wwc@engr.wisc.edu Well, this was a design decision. I think that it is the best of possible alternatives. Would you like to present an alternative that you feel is better? Brian
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!shelby!agate!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!AUREL.CALTECH.EDU!bfox From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Bug/Feature in globbing Message-ID: <8907121829.AA02468@aurel.caltech.edu> Date: 12 Jul 89 18:29:28 GMT References: <WWC.89Jul12082231@boole.ece.wisc.edu> Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: bfox@aurel.caltech.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 25