Re: sh expansion <here*

[Chet Ramey]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> You may be concerned about the following disturbing behaviour,
> $ cat kkj
> wc<kk?
> $ sh kkj
> kkj: line 1: kk?: No such file or directory
> $ bash kkj
> 1 1 7
> $ sh
> sh-3.00$ wc<kk?
> 1 1 7
> or it may all just be in my head as usual.

POSIX says that a non-interactive shell may not perform pathname
expansion on the word following the redirection operator.  Bash
doesn't do so when running in posix mode.

Chet
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