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Nicholas Clark
Date:
February 15, 2008 07:32
Subject:
Re: Change 33318: Shell patterns are subject to tilde expansion. So the case statement
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20080215145003.GT38653@plum.flirble.org
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 03:41:38PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:33:45 +0000, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:

> >   ~*)
>     ^
>     Not this one?

It seems to get away without it. I guess you would if you had a user '*' in
the passwd file. I suspect that it would fail.

(But logically, yes, we should \ it too)

Nicholas Clark
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