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Re: shell limitation
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: shell limitation |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:46:37 +0200 (CEST) |
> > Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Some shells still search `*.info'.
>
> > Sorry, I misunderstood you. But this is news to me. Which shells
> > don't expand *.info in for-loops? (It worked in Unix version 7. :-)
>
> > Is this some IFS-related problem?
>
> Werner is probably referring the case where there are no *.info, and
> it is indeed well known that in such cases globing can indeed give
> either nothing, or the pattern.
This is it! Sorry for the confusion. I misinterpreted a log file.
What Akim is saying should be documented.
Werner