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From: wwc@boole.ece.wisc.edu (William W. Carlson)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Bug/Feature in globbing
Message-ID: <WWC.89Jul12082231@boole.ece.wisc.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 89 13:22:31 GMT
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I really like bash a great deal, but one "feature" I find quite
annoying.  Whenever globbing fails (i.e. no match), it leaves the
unglobbed string as is.  (i.e. if I type "ls foo* bar*" and there is a
file in the current directory called foo.c but none starting with
"bar", ls gets passed "ls foo.c bar*" and of course says "bar* not
found."  This feature is particularly disturbing in aliases.  Do
people think this is a "bug" or a "feature"?  If it is a bug, I'd
really like it fixed.  If it is a feature, I'd like for there to be
some way (perhaps set -no_bogus_globbing) to disable it.

Bill Carlson
wwc@engr.wisc.edu