Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A64CF7A.A02AB7B8@veritas.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:47:22 -0800 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Markebo CC: Timothee Besset , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: possible bug with find References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010116140432.023f98a0@spc.sugar-land.omnes.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew Markebo wrote: > .... > > Bash seems to have begun with a smart habit of deciding when to glob, > and not to glob.. > Bourne shell and its derivatives: If the glob pattern does not match a file, pass it to the program and let it decide what to do. OK for 'find', other programs generate a 'No such file or directory' error. C shell and its derivatives: If the glob pattern does not match a file, always generate an error (program name followed by "No match.") and never run the program. Esoterica such as the above, and a great introduction to shell scripting, can be found in the book "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike. Almost all the content also applies to Cygwin. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple