On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> No. glob() returns the files that exists, but only if there exists
> at least one.
>
> csh % echo yy*
> echo: No match
> csh % echo y?y
> echo: No match
> csh % echo y{a,e,i,o,u,y,}y
> yay yey yiy yoy yuy yyy yy
Isn't it to do with whether there are any * or ? wildcards in the
expression, rather than whether there is at least one existing file?
tcsh % touch yay
tcsh % echo y{a,e,i,o,u,}y
yay yey yiy yoy yuy yy
tcsh % perl -e'print join " ",glob("y{a,e,i,o,u,}y")'
yay yey yiy yoy yuy yy
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