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Re: strange glob expansion

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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: strange glob expansion
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:44:34 +0000
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On Sep 6,  2:25pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 
> By the way, does anyone want a globbing flag to turn on extended glob?

I've occasionally wanted a way to turn it *off* but that's mainly because
I have some shell functions (wrapped in "noglob" aliases) that accept glob
patterns as arguments and then expand them, and it's sometimes tricky to
get the quoting right if I want to match a file with a '#' in its name or
some such.  (Programmers are used to avoiding the more usual shell metas,
so I seldom have to match files containing '*' or '?'.)

I don't recall ever wanting to turn it *on* in a context where I couldn't
do so with setopt.

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- Re: strange glob expansion
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