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[Larry Brower]

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On 02/28/2011 05:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> The Shell will not normally expand * to a name beginning with ".". Try
> it:
> 
> $ echo *
> 
> See "info bash":
> 
>    When a pattern is used for filename expansion, the character `.' at
> the start of a filename or immediately following a slash must be
> matched explicitly, unless the shell option `dotglob' is set.
> 
> poc
> 


I would say this all depends on the application being invoked and would
still say it is bad to just use * as opposed to say ./*

I can't count the number of people Ive seen do things like rm -rf * in a
directory and it recursively started working on / and /bin  etc...
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