From:	"Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Bug in command-line globbing
Date:	Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:49:06 -0500 (EST)
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On 13 Dec 2002, A. Sinan Unur wrote:
>
> "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu> wrote in
> news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44L-027 DOT 0212122304010 DOT 23682-100000 AT unix14 DOT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu:
[snipped]
> > it would be nice if globbing worked correctly, so one could invoke a
> > program as
> >
> > % tr -d '*\' *.txt
> >
> > and have it work as expected.  I don't know why I'd want to delete all
> > asterisks and backslashes in all my text files, but it would be nice
> > if it were _possible_.
>
> '*\ seems to work, BTW.

But not in the context of The Request, which is probably why you didn't
mention it the first time.

% test '*\ hello
:*\ hello:

-Arthur,
who has posted a bug report and now just wants a bugfix

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