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Date:      Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:44:08 -0700
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        stephen@missouri.edu
Cc:        olli@lurza.secnetix.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Thank you (for making the ports less boring).
Message-ID:  <4e70bdb8.AJO467lneB8GUlld%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E6FC59C.5090509@missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote:

> It would never have occurred to me that "echo */*/Makefile*"
> works when "grep xxx */*/Makefile*".  Is that because "echo"
> is a builtin command in csh (which is what I use)?

I don't know, but I can think of no better explanation.

> I notice "/bin/echo */*/Makefile*" doesn't work.

The same (builtin echo works, /bin/echo not) happens in /bin/sh,
and in bash.

> Is this documented somewhere?

Not that I know of.



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