Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 1) Should the error string include an explicit ./ to tell the user
> that globbing isn't happening?  

Note that this is not globbing, but tilde expansion.

> 3) Should the shells expand =~ into a the right string ( doesn't sound
> like a good idea for removing .backup=~ )  -- sounds dangerous

It does, but only in an assignment, which is not the case here.

Andreas.

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