2016-03-07 08:58:05 +0100, Isabella Parakiss:
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> OTOH this is arguably more useful than its ksh equivalent:
> GLOBIGNORE=-*; some-cmd *; some-cmd ./*
[...]
True, that's probably the one case where the GLOBIGNORE
behaviour is actually useful.
Note that with ksh93, you've got to write it:
FIG
On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 10:16:58PM +, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Today, I realised that GLOBIGNORE doesn't work at all like ksh's
> FIGNORE.
>
> With
>
> GLOBIGNORE=x*
>
> we're not filtering out files whose *name* starts with "x" from
> globs but those whose *path* starts with "x".
>
> In
2016-03-06 22:16:58 +, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
> $ bash -c 'GLOBIGNORE=x*; echo .*'
> .*
> $ bash -c 'GLOBIGNORE=x*; echo ./.*'
> ./. ./..
> $ bash -c 'GLOBIGNORE=x*; echo .*/a'
> ./a ../a
>
> To truely exclude . and .., one needs:
>
> shopt -s extglob
> GLOBIGNORE='?(*/)@(.|..)'
[...]
That
