Yep, sorry about that, c.c is selected: $ bash -c '(shopt -s globstar; d=$(mktemp -d); cd "$d"; mkdir a; ln -s a b; touch a/a.c c.c; echo **/*.c; cd ..; rm -r "$d")' a/a.c b/a.c c.c
Is there a chance of having ** not select symlinks to directories, so that b/c.c doesn't show up in the output? On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 23:57 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 4/11/18 10:32 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 10:21:03AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > >> On 4/11/18 12:21 AM, Murukesh Mohanan wrote: > >>> This has come up in the past, and was somewhat resolved (< > >>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-03/msg00097.html>), > but > >>> bash's behaviour is still a but surprising IMHO. While globstar doesn't > >>> descend further into symlinks, symlinked directories are selected as a > >>> candidate for matches to ** itself. But zsh doesn't do this: > >> > >> Before I look at this, note that this doesn't demonstrate anything: you > >> haven't enabled the `globstar' option, so `**' isn't treated specially. > >> > >>> $ bash -c '(d=$(mktemp -d); cd "$d"; mkdir a; ln -s a b; touch a/a.c > c.c; > >>> echo **/*.c; cd ..; rm -r "$d")' > >>> a/a.c b/a.c > > > > Here's a possibly more useful demonstration: > > > > wooledg:~$ mkdir /tmp/x; cd /tmp/x > > wooledg:/tmp/x$ mkdir dir; ln -s dir link; touch dir/file > > wooledg:/tmp/x$ shopt -s globstar > > wooledg:/tmp/x$ echo ** > > dir dir/file link > > wooledg:/tmp/x$ echo **/file > > dir/file link/file > > > > I think the complaint is about the handling of "**/file" here. > > Yep, that's an incompatibility. The `c.c' thing in the original report is > just a red herring, though. > > Chet > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ > -- Muru
