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Re: Wildcard and ls

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In message <barmar-D4E72B.10264130072020@reader.eternal-september.org> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> This means you can even have a wildcard at the beginning that expands 
> into the command followed by arguments, e.g.

> foo* x y z

Hmm. Not in my szh it doesn't

$ gda*                                          
zsh: no matches found: gda*
$ gdate
Thu Jul 30 08:52:58 MDT 2020

> There are other steps I've skipped, like looking for environment 
> variable settings. But the important point is that wildcard expansion is 
> done BEFORE most other interpretation of the command.

Yep. And it is easy to forget that.

-- 
The universe doesn't much care if you tread on a butterfly. There are
	plenty more butterflies. Gods might note the fall of a sparrow
	but they don't make any effort to catch them. --Lords and Ladies

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