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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Wildcard Expansion By Shell
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Date: 17 Apr 91 16:57:17 GMT
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From the keyboard of sundrag@risky.Convergent.COM (Sundaraswaran Gopalakrishnan):
: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 ?

Huh?  What do named have to do with inodes?

It reads the names from the directory, and compares against these.

--tom