Hi. I just ran into a globbing problem that doesn't at first sight seem to be caused by my environment. Details below.
Terry --- Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i386 OS: darwin8.5.1 Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' -DCONF_OSTYPE='darwin8.5.1' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-apple-darwin8.5.1' -DCONF_VENDOR='apple' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMACOSX -I. -I/sw/lib/include -I. -I./include -I./lib -I/sw/include -no-cpp-precomp uname output: Darwin terry-jones-computer.local 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 Machine Type: i386-apple-darwin8.5.1 Bash Version: 2.05b Patch Level: 0 Release Status: release Description: I have a mail directory with 6629 files in it. There is a file in the directory called OUT: ~/mail $ ls -la OUT -rw-rw-r-- 1 terry terry 52088059 Aug 23 17:17 OUT There are also a bunch of other files, with names in the form OUT-YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD: ~/mail $ ls OUT* OUT-19890919-19900313 OUT-19941030-19950522 OUT-19981217-19990529 OUT-20030113-20030326 OUT-20060606-20061125 OUT-19900314-19901018 OUT-19950523-19951128 OUT-19990530-19990926 OUT-20030327-20030602 OUT.misc01 OUT-19901019-19910307 OUT-19951129-19960618 OUT-19990927-20000305 OUT-20030603-20031001 OUT.misc02 OUT-19910308-19910827 OUT-19960619-19970203 OUT-20000306-20000630 OUT-20031002-20040509 OUT.misc03.asc OUT-19910828-19911129 OUT-19970204-19970531 OUT-20000701-20001120 OUT-20040510-20041122 OUT.misc04 OUT-19911130-19920517 OUT-19970601-19970817 OUT-20001121-20010504 OUT-20041123-20050213 OUT.misc05 OUT-19920518-19921209 OUT-19970818-19980226 OUT-20010505-20011002 OUT-20050214-20050713 OUT-19921210-19930727 OUT-19980227-19980721 OUT-20011003-20020319 OUT-20050714-20051101 OUT-19930728-19940321 OUT-19980722-19981026 OUT-20020320-20020817 OUT-20051102-20060129 OUT-19940322-19941029 OUT-19981027-19981216 OUT-20020818-20030112 OUT-20060130-20060605 Notice how the OUT file is not included in the expansion of OUT* ??? I don't have any globbing vars set to do anything weird. As a test, when I make a new empty directory and touch the above file names (plus OUT), the OUT file _is_ matched by OUT*. I don't think any of the file names are affecting ls, as ls -- OUT* also misses the OUT file in the original dir, as does echo OUT* But, echo OUT* matches OUT in the test directory. So it looks like the failure to match OUT in my original directory has something to do with the directory itself.
