Once upon a time, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Tom Horsley wrote: > >Has bash started randomly ordering wildcard expansion or something? > > I don't think bash has ever ordered the files. Instead, they're listed > in the order matched. Nope, per the standard, shell glob results "sorted according to the collating sequence in effect in the current locale" (from IEEE Std 1003.1-2008). The only thing I can think of is a random bit-flip on your USB stick. The shell and "cat" are large-file safe, so even if you were running this on a 32 bit host, you should have no problems. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
