On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Dave Anderson wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 10 Aug
> 2005 21:18:09 +0200 (CEST)
>
> >I took some time to look into this. After some head scratching and
> >staring at code, I tested this behaviour using both the '88 and '93
> >versions the AT&T version of ksh on Solaris. They both have exactly
> >the same behaviour. So very likely this is not a bug.
> >
> >Both the Kornshell book by Bolsky and Korn (i have the edition
> >describing the '88 version of ksh) and the Solaris manual pages are
> >not very clear on the exact semantics of pattern expansion. From the
> >observed behaviour and the pdksh code it seems that the x(...)
> >pathnames expansions are not done if the pattern is a result of an
> >earlier expansion, only ?, * and [...] expansions are done in that
> >case.
> >
> >Since in the test program the first step is expansion of $1, only
> >basic pathname expansion is on the result of that expansion.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to research this. It sounds like the sh(1)
> manpage should be updated to capture this information. In my recent
> "adventures in shell scripting" I've found a few other glitches in that
> page; it may take a little while, but I'll post an intelligible set of
> notes here on what I've found.
Just to let you know that I did not forget about this. I have been on
vacation. I will come up with something the coming days.
-Otto
