From: Zachary Santer Subject: Re: GLOBIGNORE Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 09:56:07 -0400
>> That's certainly correct and plausible reasoning. > So it's not just IFS that gets this treatment after all. GLOBIGNORE > would just be another thing for the paranoid to unset at the beginning > of all their scripts, though. Or maybe there should be a new command [*] (maybe "safemode" or "paranoidmode") that resets (unsets) any/all of these "dangerous" variables. That way, the implementation could keep track of the list, rather than placing that burden on the programmer. [*] Or "shopt" option or something like that... ================================================================================= Please do not send me replies to my posts on the list. I always read the replies via the web archive, so CC'ing to me is unnecessary.
