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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request
From: |
Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:50:17 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>
>> My guess would be that, sadly, the "'*.foo' with no
>> matching files expands to *.foo" behavior was originally
>> intended as a _feature_ for interactive use. Isn't that weird?
> Not a very good guess. Think ssh, rsync, etc. If the glob
> doesn't expand locally, it has another shot at being expanded
> remotely, so "ssh foo ls *.c" and "rsync -a foo:tmp/* ." will
> actually work without needing careful quoting.
How does that make it not a good guess? "without needing careful
quoting", which is true only when you know it won't match anything
locally, is a convenience for interactive use.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request, Florian Weimer, 2004/01/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request, Oliver Crow, 2004/01/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request, Tom Lord, 2004/01/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request, Dustin Sallings, 2004/01/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request, Tom Lord, 2004/01/11
- [Gnu-arch-users] shell globbing (was Re: Beginner help request), Adam Spiers, 2004/01/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] shell globbing (was Re: Beginner help request), Florian Weimer, 2004/01/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] shell globbing (was Re: Beginner help request), Adam Spiers, 2004/01/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request, Dustin Sallings, 2004/01/11
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Beginner help request, Stig Brautaset, 2004/01/10
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Beginner help request, Brian May, 2004/01/11