From: Byron Rakitzis <byron>
To: rc
Subject: Re: Match operator puzzlement
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1992 11:09:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92Feb3.110919cst.45330@archone.tamu.edu> (raw)
Re: evaluating *'s. The rule is simple. Globbing happens after
nearly everything else, so if you have a command that begins
with a ~, the ~ will "steal" the metacharacters:
foo='*'
eval ~ bar $foo
gets rescanned as
~ bar *
which returns true.
next reply other threads:[~1992-02-03 17:09 UTC|newest]
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1992-02-03 17:09 Byron Rakitzis [this message]
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1992-02-02 20:20 Tom Culliton x2278
1992-02-01 19:46 malte
1992-02-01 18:43 malte
1992-02-01 17:49 Byron Rakitzis
1992-02-01 18:02 ` John Mackin
1992-01-31 21:01 Tom Culliton x2278
1992-02-01 16:02 ` John Mackin
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