is fedora really bleeding edge?

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 3/5/2012 3:16 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 23:26 +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:
> That is because, in THIS case, "selinux*" doesn't match any files in the
> current directory. Create an empty file called "selinux1" and repeat the
> two commands and you will see what I mean.
>
> Bash is the first shell I have ever used that will pass on an unmatched
> wildcard as a literal. Try the same thing with an older shell such as
> csh, for instance:
>
> $ csh
> $ yum list selinux*
> yum: No match.
> $ yum list selinux\*
> [...]
Greg and Tom:

Thanks for the extra bit of info. Tested with bash and tcsh and can see 
the differences.

Paul