An odd difference between 'cat file' - (nf)
Bill Dietrich
wapd at houxj.UUCP
Tue Apr 17 08:51:15 AEST 1984
I filed an MR to the BTL Unix maintainers a long
time ago about this (not expanding wildcards after '<' and '>').
I was told that the reason was that this could easily lead
to unintentional arguments :
cat abc def >>x*
expanding to :
cat abc def >>x1 x2 x3 x4
which would be bad.
My response was that not only is wildcarding dangerous
in the current state (rm -fr x*), but there are cases where
the shell silently ignores weird expansions (cd x*). They
were unmoved.
Bill Dietrich
houxj!wapd
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