Re: No wildcard expansion with redirected filenames

[Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:34:21PM +0300, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Isn't this supposed to work?

> $ touch file1
> $ echo 1 > file?
> $ ls file? 
> file?  file1

> I.e. dash actually created a file named 'file?' instead of globbing.

No, this is not supposed to work. POSIX says that a non-interactive
shell must not generate pathnames for a redirection; an interactive
shell may do so, provided there is exactly one match.

Dash is primarily meant as a non-interactive shell and wants to be as
small as possible, and therefore never generates pathnames for a
redirection.

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Jilles Tjoelker
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