L A Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2019/06/05 02:06, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > I believe that there is a > > need to be able to check whether a shell hides "." and ".." from the glob > > results. > > > How will you tell if that is the case, or whether or not the > underlying OS hides (or provides) them, OR whether or not the > underlying file system supports them?
This is why the Bourne Shell supports set -o globskipdot since last weekend. The new code always hides the entries "." and ".." from readdir() and creates synthesized entries with "set +o globskipdot" (which is the default). Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
