AW: Ash wildcard usability bug

[dietmar.schindler at manroland-web.com]

> Von: Lauri Kasanen [mailto:curaga at operamail.com]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2016 19:25
>
> > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016, at 20:09, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > > > Note that they allow to consistently never do globbing on the
> > > > redirect word.
> > > >
> > > > To me it looks like the best course of action.
> > >
> > > Surely we all agree that it's terrible usability to not expand it?
> >
> > It may be terrible, but it's conforming to POSIX. ;-)
> >
> > But in earnest, I think in most cases it is more convenient to use Tab
> > completion rather than *.
>
> Well, I did try to use tab completion: cat < *zip[TAB]
>
> Of course it doesn't work. In my case, I had many files sharing a
> prefix, but only one ending in *zip, so typing that was several
> times faster than letter- tab, oh more letters, tab, oh, more
> letters, tab, more....

In this example, you could use the even shorter: cat *zip
But I see your point - there are indeed cases where pathname expansion on redirections is utile, and since it's also conforming to POSIX for an interactive shell, I have no objection to it.
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Best regards,
Dietmar
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