From: quanstro@stolaf.edu (Erik Quanstrom)
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: glomming and variable woerdness
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1992 17:35:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9206032135.AA26086@stolaf.edu> (raw)
When rc scans the line
echo $a*
the star is part of the variable name, so 'a*' is looked up and
printed out, for example
; 'a*' = fu
; echo $a*
; fu
However, when rc scans the line
echo $a ^ *
it finds (well, sometimes) a to be the empty string, concatinates that
with * and then globs that string. This string is just '*' so printing
out all the files in the directory is what rc should do.
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