Re: [OT] .* expansion (Was Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API.)

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:03:00 +0200


Arvind Sankar <arvinds@mit.edu> wrote:

> > Wouldn't it be sane to have '.*' not include the parent directory, or
>
> It doesn't. Not on bash 1.14.7 and zsh 3.0.5, at least. I think it used to,
> though I'm not sure. Besides, this is entirely a shell problem.

It does include . and .. in bash 1.14 and bash 2.03. It doesn't in
zsh and ksh.

Hey, bash folks, won't it be better if it doesn't?

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