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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: chown  broken??
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On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote:

>     apart from what others said about wildcard substitution:
>
>     roman@freepuppy /usr 1005:1 > ls -l .*
>     zsh: no matches found: .*
>     roman@freepuppy /usr 1006:1 >
>
>     IOW, the behavior is actually shell- (and shell configuration-)
>     dependent.

     Yes, because wildcard expansion is done by the shell.

>     zsh (at least with my settings) would protect you from
>     yourself in this situation.

      And will prevent you from doing it when you really need it :)


      			Fer

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