Re: du

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From: Anton Berezin
Subject: Re: du
Date: 08:57 on 30 Sep 2005

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:57:20AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> I suppose it's hateful because the shell-side glob expansion
> confuses novices and it's also hateful because the dotfile
> conventions make matching dotfiles properly a lot of work.
> 
> But the alternatives are even more hateful, so it's the (far)
> lesser of two evils.

The zsh documentation specifies, that

   No filename generation pattern matches the files `.' or `..'.

On the one hand, zsh behavior is less hateful because of that.

On the other hand, it is more hateful, since it is not compatible with
the rest of the shell world.

\Anton.
-- 
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey

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A. Pagaltzis 00:57 on 30 Sep 2005
- Anton Berezin 08:57 on 30 Sep 2005
  - peter (Peter da Silva) 12:45 on 30 Sep 2005
=?iso-8859-1?b?U+liYXN0aWVu?= Aperghis-Tramoni 10:06 on 30 Sep 2005
- Abigail 16:03 on 30 Sep 2005
  - Luke Kanies 16:21 on 30 Sep 2005
    - too deep to show
Earle Martin 18:52 on 30 Sep 2005
Smylers 09:07 on 01 Oct 2005

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