Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> > BTW, in CYGWIN=glob mode, curly braces are handled wrongly
>> > (c:\cygwin\echo.exe {aa} should return {aa}, not aa; because no , or
>> > .. inside {}).
>>
>> I don't think so. GLOB_BRACE globbing is meant to do brance globbing
>> just as csh does. This doesn't require a comma or anything else within
>> the braces. Try this in tcsh or even bash. The underlying code is
> No, not in bash. I see what you mean. Bash handles that differently
> than [t]csh. However, csh is the obvious role model for this behaviour,
> so if I had to choose who's right and who's wrong, csh (and thus the
> glob original BSD code) is the clear winner.
I would also argue that bash handling is wrong.
But it is historical, and unlikely to change, I guess.
>> (almost) stock FreeBSD code, btw.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, June 19, 2015 13:32:45
Sorry for my terrible english...
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