Re: Is this a bug?

[Eric Blake]

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According to ????? ??????/Nachshon Yeshurun on 11/5/2009 6:46 AM:
> Hello sir
> 
> Running the following command on Ubuntu 9.10 produced the following result:
> address@hidden:~$ ls *[0-9]
> Abcd4  m97  parfile1  Parfile2
> 
> dir1:
> file1  file3  pfile2  Pfile4  pxtmp  usera1
> address@hidden:~$ 
> 
> I think the file pxtmp located in dir1 should not have appeared in the answer 
> since it does not end with a numeric character.

Not a bug.  dir1 ends in a 1, so you got the results of 'ls dir1', which
lists the contents of that directory without regards to whether the
contents match the original glob you typed on the command line.  Globbing
is done before ls starts; to see what you really did, try:

$ ls *[0-9]

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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