On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:59:23AM EDT, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 04/12/2012 03:49 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> > As to dotglob, I knew of its existence.. but it never made it to my > > active vocabulary. > > > > The problem with ‘shopt -s dotglob; command’ is that it leaves the > > option set for the ensuing session. > > That's why I ran it in a (subshell) Something else that ‘never made it to my active vocabulary/grammar’.. Hence I missed it.. I even foolishly tested it like so: | $ bash | $ shopt -s dotglob; .. | $ exit But the question really was... ‘is there a downside to setting dotglob in--e.g. .. ~/.bashrc’..? Thanks, CJ -- WHAT YOU SAY??
