is fedora really bleeding edge?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 23:14:21 UTC 2012


On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:26:55 +0100
Marko Vojinovic wrote:

> Umm, now I'm confused. While I do understand what you are trying to say, I see 
> that the outputs of "yum list selinux*" and "yum list selinux\*" are exactly 
> the same:

Because as an aid to confusion, bash passes "xyzzy*" to the program
if the pattern "xyzzy*" doesn't match any available expansions.

This way it cleverly trains you that you don't need to escape
the * until someday, apparently at random, you do need to escape
it :-).


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