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Subject: Re: /bin/sh: wildcard expansion fails
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"No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" <nospam@mgedv.net> writes:

> i know things like "cat *lst|wc", but i don't want to type them.
> when i try to use wildcards with "<" or ">" in /bin/sh, it fails:
>
> my input (only one file with this name exists in the current dir):
> wc <*lst

Which is equivalent to "wc *lst", so I'm not sure why you'd want to do
that... 

> /bin/sh's output:
> cannot open *lst: No such file or directory
>
> is there a way to configure /bin/sh for "more/better" expansion?

No.

Incidentally, it is operating as documented (pathname expansion isn't
listed as performed on redirection targets), and explicitly allowed by
the POSIX standard.

> btw, with csh it works fine ;-)

And some other shells too, I'm sure.  

Feel free to fix this yourself; if it still meets the POSIX standards
(i.e., still errors out if the expansion returns multiple files), the
change would probably be accepted...