On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:21:56 -0500, Doug Chapman wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 20:18 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:54:34 -0500
> > Doug Chapman <doug chapman hp com> wrote:
> > 
> > > $ sh -x foo.sh
> > > + cp 'missingfile/*' /tmp
> > > cp: cannot stat `missingfile/*': No such file or directory
> > 
> > 
> > For completeness, please show 'foo.sh' (:
> 
> oh yeah, just like my 5rd grade teacher said, "show your work!"
> 
> $ cat foo.sh 
> #!/bin/sh
> cp missingfile/* /tmp
> 
> 
> The key here being that "missingfile" does not exist, which was the root
> of my original issue.

thanks, that's the key to reproducing it with non-builtins. if it expands
to existing paths, the quotes are not added in the xtrace. If, however,
the quotes exist in the script, that can not be concluded from watching
only the xtrace.

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