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From: andrew@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: redirection before wildcards
Summary: why cmd < pat* doesn't work.
Message-ID: <7979@alice.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 21:54:57 GMT
References: <16101@brl-adm.ARPA> <670021@hpclscu.HP.COM> <10066@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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it is not that wildcards are expanded after redirection;
rather it is that bourne screwed the grammar. the grammar fo rthe shell
(such that it is) says essentially:
	redir word
rather than 
	redir list
and then check that list generates just one thing. (wildcard expansion
is only done for lists.)