Date:	Thu, 21 May 1998 11:04:24 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	"Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Possible bash bug in "for x in $path/*x*"
In-Reply-To:	<35637b2a.6087655@enews.newsguy.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980521110256.29054T-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> when there is NOT any file in a directory in the $PATH
> which matches *awk*, the syntax "for awk in $path/*awk*" sets the
> variable $awk to the value of the path element plus "/*awk*".

That's exactly how Bash is supposed to work by default.  If you don't 
want this behavior, set the variable allow_null_glob_expansion.  It's all 
in the docs.

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