/bin/sh: wildcard expansion fails
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Fri May 19 06:49:23 PDT 2006
> Incidentally, it is operating as documented (pathname expansion isn't
> listed as performed on redirection targets), and explicitly allowed by
> the POSIX standard.
but /bin/sh could accept <*txt until there's more than one file matching
after expansion. if that's the case, an error like <*blabla: invalid
argument
could be raised.
not that i see this as a real problem, it's just a convenience-thing ;-)
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