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On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Smylers wrote:
> Well I did say that it's a pathological case, but it's enough for me to
> hate the default 'Bash' behaviour of 'globs are expanded unless they
> don't match anything in which case they are passed through unchanged'.
For the record, this is the Bourne shell's behaviour, which Bash merely
adopted. 'sh' on my Solaris x86 box (which makes it a real sh, not like
Linux's "Just call me bash" sh) does the pass through:
$ echo zz*
zz*
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