thanks for all the reply. I hate code with side-effects too. Hence, I
could not tell what "mv *" would do.
but it was a discussion with a co-worker and he likes this kind of tricks.
:)
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinl...@madboa.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, VY wrote:
>
> Thanks again for all the replies.
>>
>> I have a further question on this.
>>
>> Is doing "mv *" considered "bad coding"?
>>
>> In general, no matter which language I do, I try to avoid any side-effect.
>>
>
> It's certainly nothing I would do on purpose. :-) For instance, here are
> two views of the exact same directory:
>
> [heinlein@hub mvtest]$ ls
> A/ C/ E/ b/ d/
>
> [heinlein@hub mvtest]$ ls
> A/ b/ C/ d/ E/
>
> The difference is in the LC_COLLATE locale variable ('C' in the first
> list, 'en_US.UTF-8' in the second). Obviously, "mv *" would not behave the
> same in those two cases. Everything would end up in 'd' in the first case,
> in 'E' in the second.
>
>
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