On 2/14/11 12:43 AM, Jan Schampera wrote: > Hello world, > > > I recently answered a question about using the asterisk mixed with > redirection and other words. This also lead me to the documentation that > states (REDIRECTION section): > > --- > The word following the redirection operator in the following > descriptions, unless otherwise noted, is subjected to brace expansion, > tilde expansion, parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic > expansion, quote removal, pathname expansion, and word splitting. If it > expands to more than one word, bash reports an error. > --- > > This is true, for here documents the exceptions are mentioned. However, for > here strings no exceptions are mentioned ("The WORD is expanded [...]]", > but the WORD is at least not subject to pathname expansion:
True. That is the only expansion it does not undergo. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/