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From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or a feature?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:15:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cfdf67b7b30992331fdc42e635346cd@caldo.demon.co.uk> (raw)

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i thought that version of glob announced 'no match'
(which csh inherits) and bourne's sh was first to
pass it through to the command as-is if no names matched.

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To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or a feature?
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:19:08 -0600 (MDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206111518190.14579-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov>

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, andrey mirtchovski wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, rob pike, esq. wrote:
>
> > This is long-standard behavior for shells.  Feature.
>
> darn it, i didn't know this has been there since unix 6th ed...

I just showed Andrey the 9/19/73 man page for glob(VIII) and he now stands
corrected.

ron

             reply	other threads:[~2002-06-12  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-12  9:15 forsyth [this message]
2002-06-13  9:29 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-27 20:30 Byron Rakitzis
2002-07-27 12:10 presotto
2002-07-27  2:43 Byron Rakitzis
2002-06-13 23:05 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 23:23 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-13 20:35 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 20:58 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-13 21:34   ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2002-06-13  3:41 Russ Cox
2002-06-13  1:01 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 17:40 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-12 23:49 Geoff Collyer
2002-06-13  0:07 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-13  0:31 ` Pavel Mihaylov
2002-06-13  2:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
     [not found] <dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-06-12 19:57 ` Dennis Ritchie
2002-06-12 20:16   ` Scott Schwartz
2002-06-12 19:52 andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-12 21:57 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-12 22:53   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-14  8:45     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-14 16:23       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-11 15:32 Russ Cox
2002-06-11 15:29 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-11 21:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-11 21:19   ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-06-12  5:17     ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-12  8:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-11 15:26 andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-11 15:14 andrey mirtchovski

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