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Re: possible bug in zsh glob



On Wednesday 24 of February 2010 10:53:52 Nadav Har'El wrote:
> 
> Is there any logical reason why zsh's default is the way it is? I.e.,
> when it sees
> 
> 	ls -l *.txt *.jp
> 
> And there are no *.jp, it has to stop the entire command, rather than
> let the command give you a message, like was always the case in the
> Bourne shell, ksh, and bash (without the failglob option)?
> 

I guess, because it (zsh) originates more from csh.

Anyway, it is too late to change defaults now.

Personally I like to take it as indication that I made a typo in 
command. I do not have any problems with extra quoting when needed :)

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