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In article <8907170737.AA04585@aurel.caltech.edu> bfox@aurel.caltech.edu.date.sun, 16 Jul 89 14:05:56 +1200 From: Ray Nickson <nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz> writes:
>
> 2) You say the reason that you didn't expand the first word is because
>    you know of a command that contains a globbing character.  Well, this
>    is a much better argument for Bourne shell behaviour than any other I
>    have thought of, since the first word of a command is not the only
>    place you will see a globbing character.  In the "if" command is
>    another place.  As the second word in an "eval" command is another
>    place.

Agreed.  However, the earlier poster's suggestion that invalid globs not
expand should fix the problem.  E.g. '[a-z' is a literal string, but '[a-z]'
is a regexp.  Note that all such "invalid" cases must involve the characters
'[' or ']', since this is the only Bourne Shell globbing syntax which uses
more than one character.  Since '[' (a.k.a. 'set') is the only command I can
think of or find on my machine which even potentially causes globbing
problems, IMHO the above semantic should be more than adequate...

I have a piece of really slow, recursive match, Bourne Shell style globbing
code I wrote myself in C which implements the above semantic -- you're welcome
to it if you're interested.

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