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From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or a feature?
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:57:07 -0400
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Forsyth:

 > 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