On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:04:06PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 18 May 2009 21:14:18 Matt Zyzik wrote: > > Previously, the behavior of globstar mimicked that of ksh/zsh for such a > > command: "ls -adl **/*.cs". > > > > Now I've upgraded to Bash 4.0.24 from Bash 4.0.17 and the behavior is > > different (seemingly incorrect). Previously, the above-mentioned command > > would list all *.cs files in the current directory and all > > subdirectories. With the latest Bash, it only lists *.cs files in > > subdirectories. The *.cs files in the current working directory are > > ignored. > > > > I think this is a bug. Again, "ls -adl **/*.cs" is now _not_ picking up > > *.cs files in the current working directory. > > going by the documentation, this sounds correct to me: > If set, the pattern ** used in a filename expansion context will match a > files > and zero or more directories and subdirectories. If the pattern is followed > by a /, only directories and subdirectories match. > > what's wrong with using `ls **.cs` ?
It doesn't work. --Matt
