Older versions of fish don't seem to behave this way. 2.0.0 for example and 2.1.2 as you tested. This seems like a bug in 2.2.0 to me. It is certainly not good if commands are run with empty arguments when expansion doesn't find anything. If this is new / expected behavior under 2.2.0 I would ask if there is a way to turn it off and go back to normal behavior like other shells or older versions of fish.
Running "cat *.txt" is expected by the user to dump any *.txt file to stdout and if one doesn't exist, give an error message. Instead you are sitting there with cat running with no arguments. My basic question (that I didn't make clear) is whether this is expected behavior as it seems like a bug to me. Thanks. -Andrew On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Elias Assmann <elias.assm...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/14/2015 11:26 PM, Andrew Gillham wrote: >> 2.2.0 on mac (via homebrew) and 2.2.0-260-g7fe8a63 on debian: >>> touch 1 2 3 ls 4* >> No matches for wildcard '4*'. fish: ls 4* ^ 1 2 3 >>> ls 4* | wc -l >> No matches for wildcard '4*'. fish: ls 4* | wc -l ^ 3 > > If the question is, why do you see “1 2 3” in the first case and 3 > lines in the second, the answer is in the behavior of ‘ls’: ‘ls 4*’ is > like ‘ls’ and lists the files 1, 2, and 3. If output is to a > terminal, ‘ls’ formats it in columns, but in your second example, > output is to a pipe and ‘ls’ defaults to single-column output (like > ‘ls -1’). > > That said, I see no output: > >> ls 4* > fish: No matches for wildcard '4*'. > ls 4* > ^ >> ls 4* | wc -l > fish: No matches for wildcard '4*'. > ls 4* | wc -l > ^ >> > > I am not sure if the difference is caused by some setting or by the > different version of the shell (2.1.2 from Debian here). > > HTH, > > Elias > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJV975KAAoJEE/4gtQZfOqP65MQAIACJfa2ohHmpjb9t0l64NI1 > 7Db8czrex31ystpMDYNfDawTa6Z59aQ/n2bq1qRXSbaOM4clyUFH9hdT/z//KqvA > FXW9iYjwwspmrvGEAGhc0I4qf81B9QQ17WlXa9L4jHf6PaBIVxxH+UPmCUceQ0bt > AHLHPLaj551sHDFrzURTFV8tcu5ff5rLCTMGIlDFiW3hmStVAFxOQdwi1gzu3QPX > wvCLuePkn7uWOSbd+IuKMN37cMtLijvoJenPv0hzB6GAUzUKimdoQIHEgF2rMK8A > 5b05QjwClWhdNHN+CwofW6Mqbc0tv4kh+96MyzYaAcPc+rwTFLT1V/ntKVpcUxuS > S4feJD4kdioYCBQHEuc2bR+bG8hCMaEHe2aMPRsBEjzX4/2azoCkiVRwpgHYnQi5 > 4CvJNgg5Xvs8avcpxmSKez+8mjg4oV/bXfuhuxzrKKqNLUyNWUMz5jIymYmmxLh+ > ApJDzDT2Xe/XeNdqv5khNj+5HUfEeFsm6sGQ2cYXWmgZBWuUhq711A8i4Nj0ZAVy > M6Yp4QH2Ld340Lc6SZIqfnQCrn//Wp8tqZeHo7mvF7yimwtM+4VAM0/+eJFXAkf4 > yKV4G3dwd9tX0kRuEYUpV16GKwuYBu3+3rYDNGQkPSr7L2O95VEQFyVpVFN5fO8l > RuJ19fX7wvBTcluORagY > =Ey2m > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Fish-users mailing list > Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
