Re: [OT] .* expansion (Was Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API.)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:13:57 -0400


In message <199906261503.RAA02057@qrnik.knm.org.pl>, "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
" writes:
+-----
| Arvind Sankar <arvinds@mit.edu> wrote:
| > > Wouldn't it be sane to have '.*' not include the parent directory, or
| >
| > It doesn't. Not on bash 1.14.7 and zsh 3.0.5, at least. I think it used to,
| > though I'm not sure. Besides, this is entirely a shell problem.
|
| It does include . and .. in bash 1.14 and bash 2.03. It doesn't in
| zsh and ksh.
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Correction: it does in real ksh. It doesn't in pdksh.

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