> Interesting. I found that GNU's grep actually finds a match for "grep > -ail freebsd /usr/ports/distfiles/*": > > /usr/ports/distfiles/ezm3 > > ezm3 is a directory with a filename that contains FreeBSD in it.
the * will expand /usr/ports/distfiles/* into full path names to each file in /usr/ports/distfiles. since this is expanded by your shell, grep will take those directory names as arguments and search directories as files as we know it to.. -Anthony.
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