tag 31013 notabug close 31013 stop On 31/03/18 12:55, Andry wrote: > Hello Bug-coreutils, > > Seems this bug has waited ages before anybody has noticed it. > I am not a Linux fan, but this one bug was my most one-shot-bug > I've ever catched from a thing first time usage (VirtualBox Linux Mint 18.3 > x64). Am I cursed? > >> cd ~ >> mkdir 1 >> mkdir 2 >> mv 1 "2/*.*" >> cd 2 >> ls > *.* > > Why these 2 hairy eyes look at me?
lol. Never heard this referenced as hairy eyes before :) This is nothing to do with mv, rather the quoting applied by your shell. Compare and contrast: echo "hairy eyes: *.*" echo "hairy eyes:" *.* cheers, Pádraig
