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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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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:19:08 -0600 (MDT)

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

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