Re: Some globstar patterns produce duplicate entries and a null filename

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/5/12 3:17 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:

> Works well when used up to 2 levels of ** - ** and **/** is fixed.
> However still produce duplicates, when used more levels - **/**/**. Also
> produce duplicates for **/a/** form.

The next version will treat any sequence of **/** the same as **, so those
duplicates will be suppressed.

I'm going to argue that some duplicates are going to be expected when you
have patterns like **/a/** that can match the same directory name using
two different "paths," if you will.  Other shells that implement **, such
as ksh93, agree.  Imperfect, but there's not a good solution.

Chet



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