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From: jjb@pyuxnn.UUCP (J Bernardis)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: An odd difference between "cat file" and "cat<file"
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Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 15:05:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 16 15:05:04 1984
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cat doesn't do the file name expansion!!  The shell has that responsibility.
Thus, cat doesn't know if you typed abcd or ab* on the command line.
I frankly don't know why there is a difference between cat ab* and cat <ab*.
It seems to me that file name expansion should be done before anything else.

	Jeff Bernardis, AT&T Technologies @ Piscataway NJ