Re: strange glob expansion

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 3,  2:11pm, Hubert Canon wrote:
} Subject: Re: strange glob expansion
}
} I don't like setopt cshnullglob because it gives strange behaviour
} when I use a single globbing pattern which fails. Like :
} 
} grep foo*bar | less
} 
} If foo*bar matches nothing, it's exactly like : grep | less
} which stops, waiting for input.

No, that's not true.  There are two options: NULL_GLOB behaves as you just
described.  CSH_NULL_GLOB will return "no match" in that instance and not
start the grep; it removes patterns silently only when there is more than
one pattern and at least one pattern matches a file.

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