On 10/10/22 12:59 PM, Phi Debian wrote:
Ok, I agry that PATH_MAX should not be considered, because not defined every where (OS's)
That's not the point. The point is that shell pattern matching is used in contexts other than filename globbing, and the shell shouldn't broadly impose a filename-only restriction on those uses. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/