-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 02/28/2011 05:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The Shell will not normally expand * to a name beginning with ".". Try > it: > > $ echo * > > See "info bash": > > When a pattern is used for filename expansion, the character `.' at > the start of a filename or immediately following a slash must be > matched explicitly, unless the shell option `dotglob' is set. > > poc > I would say this all depends on the application being invoked and would still say it is bad to just use * as opposed to say ./* I can't count the number of people Ive seen do things like rm -rf * in a directory and it recursively started working on / and /bin etc... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJNbC6BAAoJEBgaXYoZ++87K7EH/jQPzxF5a2hKwOamptZnuAb2 BNd0Tm7rUUvNItkMVjhA032WoYO75Atftmh8dn0kVmD4Ha9UvQSTFRYszWh6NdpM nZ+vGaNIe0O3OvH5ASK55f+sd+6s0sKVLT7QXykixEaiq1h4CUhox03LD7OfhABr XpgQK/RL3Ca3OlfL4WyeAMC2Hk7hG6WOvVWlJBt523KS21/SXOp3QUgq2fIh05Tl oWbcPwChPxeGJPKSpvpbsvAVS6i1+F+ZQyYC4IoxxglULBzJa5eBdez2ZBoTpteJ h9oNuslNcz+SN6ha5uswixJhHBnqXsJdD04HM8dpwQMF68ZMPPEu5JjMk7nBxSc= =plTa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
