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From: Byron Rakitzis <byron>
To: rc
Subject: Re: Match operator puzzlement
Message-Id: <92Feb3.110919cst.45330@archone.tamu.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1992 11:09:06 -0600

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.