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Re: Problem with "?" symbol

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Problem with "?" symbol
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 23:05:13 +0200
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On 2010-08-03 09:46:57 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Aug 03), Manuel Presnitz said:
> > I think there is also a third solution:
> > 
> > Unset the option nomatch:
[...]
> 
> This can get you into trouble if you happen to have files matching
> your wildcard in the current directory. "noglob" completely disables
> globbing; "NO_NOMATCH" still tries to match the wildcard but leaves
> it if there are no matches.

Moreover the no_nomatch option is global, thus affects commands for
which one doesn't want this feature.

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References:
- Re: Problem with "?" symbol
  - From: Manuel Presnitz
- Re: Problem with "?" symbol
  - From: Dan Nelson

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