On 05/10/2014 06:50 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 05/09/2014 05:51 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#expr-2-_002a-3-does-not-work > > Hi Padraig, > > I don't know if this was discussed before: what do you think about > adding a sentence to the FAQ that some shells allow to turn off > globbing? E.g. in bash with 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob': > > $ ( set -o noglob && expr 2 * 2 ) > 4
Maybe, though you'd probably never do that in the context of calculations in a shell script, where escaping the '*' is the standard and portable way to achieve it. cheers, Pádraig.
