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Subject: RE: ls and wildcards
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:08:41 -0500
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Karl M wrote on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:37 AM:

>> Subject: RE: ls and wildcards
>> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:26:19 -0500
>> From: bryan.thrall
>>=20
>> Karl M wrote on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:17 AM:
>>=20
>>> Hi All...
>>>=20
>>> I just noticed while looking around after updating dash that "ls
/bin/*sh"
>>> does not find bash and dash, but it does on my Fedora core 6 machine
at
>>> work. I see the issue in both 1.5 and 1.7, attached is an example in
cygwin
>>> 1.7.=20
>>>=20
>>> Thanks,
>>>=20
>>> ...Karl
>>=20
>> I can reproduce this (for bash, anyway; I don't have dash installed),
plus:
>>=20
>> $ ls /bin/*sh.exe
>> /bin/ash.exe /bin/ksh.exe /bin/ppmflash.exe /bin/sh.exe
/bin/tclsh.exe
>> /bin/bash.exe /bin/pdksh.exe /bin/rsh.exe /bin/ssh.exe /bin/wish.exe
>>=20
> So it is an issue with the exe magic and ls. The .exe files are not
found.
>=20
> Is the intended behavior?

See Eric and Corinna's replies to the mailing list; apparently, it is a
deficiency in glob() and fnmatch().

--=20
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com

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