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From: sundrag@risky.Convergent.COM (Sundaraswaran Gopalakrishnan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Wildcard Expansion By Shell
Message-ID: <4056@risky.Convergent.COM>
Date: 16 Apr 91 23:46:52 GMT
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Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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Hi,
  I would like to know how exactly Shell expands the wildcard 
characters in the command line. Are there any undocumented system
calls to accomplish this ? Or the Shell does a physical read of the 
disk inodes etc. and matches the file name against each one ?

Thanks,
Sundar.