Re: mkdir - Command

[Eric Blake]

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According to Stefan Menne on 11/16/2009 7:10 AM:
> Hello,
> 
> The Commands  ls (and others) and mkdir interpret Wildcard in different 
> ways:

No, they don't interpret wildcards at all.  Globbing is a function of the
shell, performed prior to ls or mkdir invocation.

> 
> ->   ls    fil*/te*/file 

The shell ends up executing:

ls file/text/file

so ls never saw the wildcard

> 
> ->  mkdir  fi*/te*/directory

fi*/te*/directory doesn't exist at the time of the shell globbing, so
there is nothing to expand, so the shell ends up calling:

mkdir "fi*/te*/directory"

but since the parent directory fi* does not exist, mkdir must fail.

This is not a bug, but a misunderstanding on your part about how shell
globbing works.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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