Andrew Markebo wrote:
>
....
>
> Bash seems to have begun with a smart habit of deciding when to glob,
> and not to glob..
>
Bourne shell and its derivatives: If the glob pattern does not match a file, pass it
to the program and let it decide what to do. OK for 'find', other programs generate a
'No such file or directory' error.
C shell and its derivatives: If the glob pattern does not match a file, always
generate an error (program name followed by "No match.") and never run the program.
Esoterica such as the above, and a great introduction to shell scripting, can be found
in the book "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike. Almost all the
content also applies to Cygwin.
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Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
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