Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Pathname expansion vs. filename expansion Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:08:10 -0400 Lines: 25 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87094e8a-3a60-5ad1-ac26-815a4a8a7ed7@case.edu> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1566310099 25120 209.51.188.17 (20 Aug 2019 14:08:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: konsolebox , bug-bash Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=case.edu; s=smtp-primary; t=1566310092; bh=xVEjSr2uLuLWBNnB+ewHQbPQ7oM7oA9MiZDQ+L5vnH4=; h=Reply-To:Cc:Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date: MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=XZf6/HqHQnzO6FeqxEj82grwphXmfttLBuRLRJ0EayC0kTl+kI0v1OkN26fH+LWRo4 shqBhb2NIS8R+LIQr+r3IF6KdZF1uFy79TUQ0QyyXfObk13fktAixvDKGxX+DrjZ3pD t0kmkkqjfj4LM+lOcsMQEFpHIV1YOS7exICySoez8BDmDAHbmz/S7n36e/p3auY94HB mZjk/TuXyEd683RamWNA+Pen0Wr8zdM9SN3re21m0SWq/f2oXYBLVE3HlIOTr5eWsTI 7Jp7nFELVO++GqEfdXVUDYqA0KzpcV+PwQyCjyGKQv4zmwZuNLXL+Z5247xtRgp++OF V+odJ25w== DKIM-Signature: v=1; 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Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Junkmail-Status: score=7/90, host=mpv3-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=7/90, refid=2.7.2:2019.8.20.135117:17:7.944, ip=, rules=DKIM_SIGNATURE, __HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, __SUBJ_REPLY, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __HAS_REFERENCES, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC1, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __DKIM_ALIGNS_1, __DKIM_ALIGNS_2, __ANY_URI, __HTTPS_URI, __URI_WITH_PATH, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __FRAUD_MONEY_CURRENCY_DOLLAR, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __MULTIPLE_URI_TEXT, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __FORWARDED_MSG, __BODY_NO_MAILTO, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODY_SIZE_1100_1199, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.194 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <87094e8a-3a60-5ad1-ac26-815a4a8a7ed7@case.edu> X-Mailman-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:15326 On 8/20/19 3:38 AM, konsolebox wrote: > In bashref.html and probably some other files in doc/, pathname > expansion is referred to as filename expansion (see > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Filename-Expansion). > In bash.1, it is pathame expansion. Perhaps one of them should be > corrected. I prefer "pathname" and "pathname expansion" and would prefer to use those everywhere. It's more consistent with other documentation, at least shell documentation, and with POSIX. However, at some point -- I can't find it now -- the GNU documentation standards recommended using "filename" and "filename expansion," reserving "pathname" for colon-separated values like $PATH. As a result, I try to use "filename expansion" in the texinfo manual, and "pathname expansion" in the man page. I'm not as good at using "filename" instead of "pathname" in the texinfo manual, though. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/