Thank you (for making the ports less boring).

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Wed Sep 14 07:52:28 UTC 2011


Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at missouri.edu> wrote:

> It would never have occurred to me that "echo */*/Makefile*"
> works when "grep xxx */*/Makefile*".  Is that because "echo"
> is a builtin command in csh (which is what I use)?

I don't know, but I can think of no better explanation.

> I notice "/bin/echo */*/Makefile*" doesn't work.

The same (builtin echo works, /bin/echo not) happens in /bin/sh,
and in bash.

> Is this documented somewhere?

Not that I know of.


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