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Re: Bug/Feature in globbing

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From: George Robbins
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1989 22:31
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In article <WWC.89Jul12082231@boole.ece.wisc.edu> wwc@boole.ece.wisc.edu (William W. Carlson) writes:
> 
> ... 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.

But that's the elegant, if preverse, way that bourne style shells are
supposed to handle unresolved globbing attempts.  What you are asking
for is "set -csh_style_bogus_glob_error_messages_and_terminate" option.

8-)

Such a mode does have it's merits, though it's necessity is arguable.

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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Bug/Feature in globbing
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Date: 12 Jul 89 22:31:31 GMT
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