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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: Globbing in redirections
To: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 18:48:31 +0200 (MET DST)
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> However, my original point stands.  ksh doesn't do brace expansion in
> redirections.  We need to split up prefork() somewhere -- is there
> another function that would be more appropriate to use in this case?
> We need all expansions except for brace expansion and globbing, but
> prefork() does everything except globbing.

prefork has a flags argument.  The easiest solution for this case is eg. if
bit is 3 set than do not do brace expansion.

Zoltan