Hi all,
Is this a glob() bug, or am I overlooking something obvious?
perldoc -f glob didn't help. TIA.
The .[0-9]*[0-9] is globbed correctly when it is not
inside braces.
% touch a ab abcd a.777
%
% perl -le \
'print for glob(a{,b,b*d,.[0-9]*[0-9]}), ---, glob(a.[0-9]*[0-9])'
a
ab
It looks to me like a bug.
Your expectation of the expansion looks correct to me, and on Linux I
get the behaviour that you wanted from /bin/bash, /bin/sh (links to
bash) and /bin/csh (links to /bin/tcsh).
It is remotely possible that there is some real csh that disagrees,
but if so then I'd
It looks to me like a bug.
Thanks for confirming my experience, Ben. I was getting tired of
re-reading and re-typing my command lines to rule out stupid typo's.
Incidentally, perl v5.8.3 shows the same buggy behaviour on
solaris as well as linux.
peace, || Ben Cohen tells us
