Re: A simple hate today.

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: A simple hate today.
Date: 19:45 on 25 May 2006
> You have to escape it from your shell? Either you have files whose
> name is simply hyphen plus another character in the current directory,
> or you have a hateful shell.

I have a shell that allows me to "set nonomatch" to turn this off.

I do not do this, because having metacharacters sometimes working without
quoting and sometimes not is hateful. I have to quote them anyway, even if
I think I'm safe, so there's no point to ever treating them as normal
characters.

See also, hateful automatic command abbreviations.

There's stuff above here

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