Set bash's shell option nullglob by default?
David Levine
par.packager at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 13:48:05 UTC 2012
Roman wrote:
> It is possible it can break many scripts even in rpm's
> scriptlets, but as I already said, it's because bad
> habits. So the main gain will be the people will learn how
> is the globbing in bash and in the whole environment
> working.
Please don't. If an author or maintainer wants to save
themself from "bad habits", they can put "shopt -s nullglob"
near the top of their bash scripts.
Let's not break many, many existing scripts.
David
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