Chet Ramey wrote: > On 5/29/13 9:08 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Why would I get this: >> >>> echo "gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/liboxygen-gtk.so >>> [u::rwx,u:law:rwx,g::r-x,m::rwx,o::r-x]" >> gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/liboxygen-gtk.so >> [u::rwx,u:law:rwx,g::r-x,m::rwx,o::r-x] >> >>> echo gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/liboxygen-gtk.so >>> [u::rwx,u:law:rwx,g::r-x,m::rwx,o::r-x] >> gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/liboxygen-gtk.so s >> >> ^^--so why doesn't it echo out it's input arguments? Where did the acl go? >> into 's'? ;-/ > > Are you familiar with filename generation, commonly known as `globbing'? >
Are you saying it took bracketed thing as a gorup of chars to match? oh... and the r-x was a range that picked up a singled file 's'... ARG!... oi oi oi... Thanks -- I was hoping it has some simple explanation that I just wasn't seeing. (I was only thinking of escape sequences...)... Cheers! Linda
