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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 'find'
Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2003 08:31:50 +0000
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Dan Cross wrote:
> > grep pattern <file* doesn't work.  cat file* | grep pattern does.
> Just a note lest some pedant jump at me from behind the shadows while
> I'm otherwise preoccupied.  I'm assuming, of course, that file* matches
> more than one file in the above examples.

Actually in most Bourne shells the first file* is never expanded.