Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks, I installed that, along with the attached followup which > documents some other globbing pitfalls.
Thanks. That's much more complete! > By the way, brace expansion is not part of globbing: it's a prepass over > the shell command and it operates independently of file names. Brace > expansion does not work when doing pattern matching in 'case' > statements, for example. So I adjusted the example to not imply that > brace expansion cares whether files exist. Oh. That was another wrong understanding of how the shell language works, on my side. Thanks for correcting me. Bruno
