grep is always recursive

Ulf Rompe Ulf.Rompe at icem.com
Mon Jan 26 06:40:41 UTC 2009


Am Samstag, den 24.01.2009, 12:23 -0500 schrieb Hal Burgiss:
> I am wondering now if bash has expanded '*' to include directories.

You might check this with other programs:

/bin/echo *
ls -ld *

> But if so, why only in $HOME? And why only on this system?

Must be the standard "if (user == 'hal') {confuse_him();}" code.

[x] ulf
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