On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 08:21 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > What I hadn't realized until Patrick mentioned it, was the significance > of the * in the path specification. I hadn't realized that with using > the * not only did it cause files prefixed with a '.' to be ignored but > it also causes directories prefixed with a '.' to be ignored also. Shell name expansion is applied to the contents of a directory irrespective of what those contents mean. Thus '*' matches all directory entries except those prefixed with '.', as the Shell manual states. That applies to files, directories, sockets, devices, ... poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
