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Re: Globbing inside conditional expression

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From: Ben North <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Globbing inside conditional expression
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:18:01 +0000
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A few minutes ago I wrote:

> I was expecting 'normal shell expansion' [as noted in the doc for
> conditional expressions] to include globbing, but am I
> misunderstanding this?

I promise I did search for the answer before posting, but I've just seen

    http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?USERNUMBER=14830

where Bart Schaefer writes:

> Actually [[ -f XX* ]] is invalid because [[ ]] doesn't do globbing.
> You need the [ -f XX* ] form (see below).

answering my question.  Apologies for the noise.

Perhaps the documentation could be clarified though?

Ben.

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