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




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