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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
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Subject: weird sh behaviour
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/bin/sh seems not to expanding metacharacters in filenames used for
I/O redirection:

	$ /bin/sh
	$ ls -l
	$ touch bbb
	$ echo test > b*
	$ ls -l
	total 2
	-rw-r--r--  1 luigi  wheel  5 Mar 16 01:20 b*
	-rw-r--r--  1 luigi  wheel  0 Mar 16 01:20 bbb
	$ 

By contrast, csh and bash do the right thing:

	bash-2.05a$ ls -l
	bash-2.05a$ touch bbb
	bash-2.05a$ echo test > b*
	bash-2.05a$ ls -l
	total 2
	-rw-r--r--  1 luigi  wheel  5 Mar 16 01:24 bbb

Is it a feature or a bug ?

	cheers
	luigi

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