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Re: Recursive globbing

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Recursive globbing
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:06:23 +0200
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On 2004-05-14 09:10:13 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> No; please please don't do this.  Consider:
> 
> 	foo='x*'
> 
> 	print ${~foo}*
> 
> Or
> 
> 	bar="$foo*"
> 	print $~bar
> 
> Completely unexpected results.
> 
> Also it seriously breaks sh compatibility, so at the very least it should
> be disabled when SH_GLOB or similar options are in effect.
> 
> There's a reason that only **/ and not blather**/ is special.

Then there's a problem with **/ :

  foo='*'
  print ${~foo}*/

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References:
- Re: Recursive globbing
  - From: Peter Stephenson
- Re: Recursive globbing
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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