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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: csh glob bug
Date: 2 Nov 1993 06:20:40 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <2b4psj$83o@zip.eecs.umich.edu>,
Dan Muntz <dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu> wrote:
>This applies to NetBSD 0.9 and probably FreeBSD.
>Any wildcard which matches nothing causes a "No match" for the entire argument
>list.  The included patch takes care to mimic the standard globbing of csh.
>
>To see the bug:
>
>% touch aa bb
>% ls
>aa	bb
>% ls *b *ccc
>ls: No match.


	I am unable to reproduce this bug on my generic NetBSD 0.9 system:

lanfear# touch aa bb
lanfear# ls
./      ../     aa      bb
lanfear# ls *b *ccccc
bb
lanfear# ls *a *woof
aa


	Did I miss something somewhere?  Are you running the current?



							Marc 'em.
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