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Re: Is this a bug?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Is this a bug?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:58:38 +0000 (UTC)
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Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> Not a bug.  dir1 ends in a 1, so you got the results of 'ls dir1', which
> lists the contents of that directory without regards to whether the
> contents match the original glob you typed on the command line.  Globbing
> is done before ls starts; to see what you really did, try:
> 
> $ ls *[0-9]

I typo'd that.  I meant for you to try:

$ echo ls *[0-9]

-- 
Eric Blake







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