On 4/11/18 12:21 AM, Murukesh Mohanan wrote: > This has come up in the past, and was somewhat resolved (< > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-03/msg00097.html>), but > bash's behaviour is still a but surprising IMHO. While globstar doesn't > descend further into symlinks, symlinked directories are selected as a > candidate for matches to ** itself. But zsh doesn't do this:
Before I look at this, note that this doesn't demonstrate anything: you haven't enabled the `globstar' option, so `**' isn't treated specially. > $ bash -c '(d=$(mktemp -d); cd "$d"; mkdir a; ln -s a b; touch a/a.c c.c; > echo **/*.c; cd ..; rm -r "$d")' > a/a.c b/a.c -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/