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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Bug/Feature in globbing
Message-ID: <2876@kappl.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 14 Jul 89 18:11:52 GMT
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bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox) writes:
\...	   for i in *
\	   do
\		   cat $i
\	   done
\... with "nullglobok" non-null, and no files in the current
\directory, the `cat' would hang, waiting for input, since `$i' would
\expand to nothing.

Think again, Brian: the body wouldn't get executed at all.
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