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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: Bug/Feature in globbing
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Date: 12 Jul 89 18:35:29 GMT
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   Date: 12 Jul 89 17:29:06 GMT
   From: rsalz@bbn.com  (Rich Salz)
   Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
   References: <WWC.89Jul12082231@boole.ece.wisc.edu>
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   Given a directory with the two files "virus" and "very" in it, then
	   echo v* z*
   will do the following for sh
	   very virus z*
   and it will do the following for csh
	   very virus
   if you do "set nonomatch" in csh, then you'll get the sh behavior.
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In csh, without `nonomatch' set, (note this could mean typing "unset
nonomatch"!), then

	echo z*
	  -> echo: no match
but
	echo v* z*
	  -> very virus

This is ambiguous behaviour in my opinion.

Brian Fox