On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:34:21PM +0300, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > Isn't this supposed to work?
> $ touch file1 > $ echo 1 > file? > $ ls file? > file? file1 > I.e. dash actually created a file named 'file?' instead of globbing. No, this is not supposed to work. POSIX says that a non-interactive shell must not generate pathnames for a redirection; an interactive shell may do so, provided there is exactly one match. Dash is primarily meant as a non-interactive shell and wants to be as small as possible, and therefore never generates pathnames for a redirection. -- Jilles Tjoelker -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
