cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ast-users] Globbing and variable expansion in print -s arguments --------
> I observe some inconsistency with print -s that I don't understand. > In one case a call of > > x=ABC ; print -s Hihi *.txt $x > > will put unexpanded _literal_ 'Hihi *.txt $x' into the command > history, another time it will put an expanded *.txt file name list > and an expanded $x variable value into the command history. > > I am unable to reproduce this. Since the expansions are done before the shell knows that the command is print -s, I don't know how it is possible to not expand *.txt unless noglob is set or there is no *.txt. David Korn [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
