On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:13 AM John Chludzinski < john.chludzin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whereas, I’ve haven’t had time to try again to duplicate the ‘rm’ problem, > I have encountered yet another * “issue”: > > I tried: > > ls > ./a10_soc_devkit_ghrd/software/bootloader/u-boot-socfpga/arch/arm/dts/'*10*' > That won't work because quoting the wildcard causes the shell to treat it like any other character; i.e., it loses its meaning as a wildcard. And the ls command does not do wildcard expansion. > ls './a10_soc_devkit_ghrd/software/bootloader/u-boot- > socfpga/arch/arm/dts/*10*' > See http://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html#wildcards. Specifically this paragraph: Note that for most commands, if any wildcard fails to expand, the command > is not executed, $status > <http://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html#variables-status> is set to > nonzero, and a warning is printed. This behavior is consistent with setting > shopt -s failglob in bash. There are exactly 4 exceptions, namely set > <http://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/set.html#cmd-set>, overriding > variables in overrides > <http://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html#variables-override>, count > <http://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/count.html#cmd-count> and for > <http://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/for.html#cmd-for>. Their globs > are permitted to expand to zero arguments, as with shopt -s nullglob in > bash. -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank
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