On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:34:15 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote:
>Never mind, that does not work either. Not sure what the “right” way would be.
>
Basic rule: The POSIX shell *always* performs expansion
identically before invoking any command. This is remarkably
consistent and economical, but defies the expectations of
programmers trained in other operating systems.
823 $ ls -1
bar.txt
foo.txt
824 $ set -x
825 $ mv *.txt *
-bash 688+ mv bar.txt foo.txt bar.txt foo.txt
mv: target 'foo.txt': Not a directory
826 $
>From: Farley, Peter
>Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2025 1:15 PM
>
>Shouldn’t that “mv” command have an additional period in the second argument
>to delete the extension?
>
>mv *.txt *.
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gil
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