im going a bit ot, bare with me.
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:47:23PM +0200, Max Waterman wrote:
I only have the one drive (sda) on this computer, so 'sa[abcd]1' only
matched one drive. The unexpected bit is that the shell passed on the arg
'as is' when it didn't match any file (IIRC that's different for csh, which
I notice you're using).
filename generation (glob) syntax is common to all shell iirc
behaviour when globbing does not match varies
ksh: will pass the argument unmodified, which i believe is posix.
csh: depends on option nonomatch, if set lets the argument unmodified,
else (default) will print an error.
csh% got light?
No Match.
bash: has two options that controll globbing
default is as ksh
failglob: if set prints error, like csh
nullglob: if set just ignores the pattern (i.e. replaces it with
nothing)
zsh: rtfm
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