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Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or a feature?
From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:52:35 -0600
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not to drag this any further, here's what the Rc paper has to say
about globbing (section 4):

<quote>
A pattern is replaced by a list of arguments, one for each path name
matched, except that a pattern matching no names is not replaced by
the empty list; rather it stands for itself.
</quote>

somehow it seemed to me an empty list would be the proper way.  as it
was already said -- the current behaviour is a feature, not a bug

>  > i thought that version [6th ed] 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.
>
> This is so.  I just looked at the source.
> I think the change was generally accepted
> as an improvement, or at least neutral.
>
> 	Dennis