Pascal Wittmann <m...@pascal-wittmann.de> writes: > The way that "*" is treated for globbing is not consitent. Normaly a > regular expression "*" > would match all characters, but for the sake of usability it doesn't > include the files > which starts with a dot (dotfiles) and the file "..".
".." is not in any way special here. It is just a file that happens to start with a dot. > But if I use the expression ".*" in bash, I would expect from the > behaviour of "*", that > ".*" don't include the file "..". ".." is matched by ".*" because it starts with a dot. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
