* No wildcard expansion with redirected filenames
@ 2010-08-07 19:34 Alkis Georgopoulos
2010-08-08 12:15 ` Jilles Tjoelker
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alkis Georgopoulos @ 2010-08-07 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dash
Isn't this supposed to work?
$ touch file1
$ echo 1 > file?
$ ls file?
file? file1
I.e. dash actually created a file named 'file?' instead of globbing.
Please CC me if possible, I'm not on the list.
Kind regards,
Alkis Georgopoulos
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: No wildcard expansion with redirected filenames
2010-08-07 19:34 No wildcard expansion with redirected filenames Alkis Georgopoulos
@ 2010-08-08 12:15 ` Jilles Tjoelker
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jilles Tjoelker @ 2010-08-08 12:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alkis Georgopoulos; +Cc: dash
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:34:21PM +0300, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Isn't this supposed to work?
> $ touch file1
> $ echo 1 > file?
> $ ls file?
> file? file1
> I.e. dash actually created a file named 'file?' instead of globbing.
No, this is not supposed to work. POSIX says that a non-interactive
shell must not generate pathnames for a redirection; an interactive
shell may do so, provided there is exactly one match.
Dash is primarily meant as a non-interactive shell and wants to be as
small as possible, and therefore never generates pathnames for a
redirection.
--
Jilles Tjoelker
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2010-08-08 12:25 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2010-08-07 19:34 No wildcard expansion with redirected filenames Alkis Georgopoulos
2010-08-08 12:15 ` Jilles Tjoelker
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox