Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:49:10 +0200 From: "no@spam@mgedv.net" <nospam@mgedv.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: /bin/sh: wildcard expansion fails Message-ID: <004801c67b4b$01c85e30$01010101@avalon.lan> In-Reply-To: <44d5ec3eti.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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> Incidentally, it is operating as documented (pathname expansion isn't > listed as performed on redirection targets), and explicitly allowed by > the POSIX standard. but /bin/sh could accept <*txt until there's more than one file matching after expansion. if that's the case, an error like <*blabla: invalid argument could be raised. not that i see this as a real problem, it's just a convenience-thing ;-)
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