From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 19 13:49:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8950816A433 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 13:49:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from mail.mgedv.net (mail.mgedv.net [81.223.168.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15C243D7E for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 13:49:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from metis (sslint.my.loop [1.1.1.1]) by mail.my.loop (mgedv) with ESMTP id A5437456E0 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 15:49:11 +0200 (CEST) From: "no@spam@mgedv.net" To: Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:49:10 +0200 Message-ID: <004801c67b4b$01c85e30$01010101@avalon.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcZ5vlHQajfV519URLii3X7z54CONQBjF5KQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: <44d5ec3eti.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:11:42 +0000 Subject: RE: /bin/sh: wildcard expansion fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 13:49:23 -0000 > 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 ;-)