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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: csh glob bug Date: 2 Nov 1993 06:20:40 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2b4u7o$hh9@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <2b4psj$83o@zip.eecs.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <2b4psj$83o@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, Dan Muntz <dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu> wrote: >This applies to NetBSD 0.9 and probably FreeBSD. >Any wildcard which matches nothing causes a "No match" for the entire argument >list. The included patch takes care to mimic the standard globbing of csh. > >To see the bug: > >% touch aa bb >% ls >aa bb >% ls *b *ccc >ls: No match. I am unable to reproduce this bug on my generic NetBSD 0.9 system: lanfear# touch aa bb lanfear# ls ./ ../ aa bb lanfear# ls *b *ccccc bb lanfear# ls *a *woof aa Did I miss something somewhere? Are you running the current? Marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--