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Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories

From Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories
Date 2017-05-04 09:40 +0200
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Le quintidi 15 floréal, an CCXXV, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit :
> Exactly. Try again in a directory with something in it, and you'll
> appreciate the whole power/curse of the thing :-)
> 
> The shell takes a lot from the "ambient" (current directory, shell
> variables inherited through the dynamic path, etc.) and this makes
> for an incredibly concise language, but is an opportunity for incredibly
> clever bugs.

Note that it is a severe misfeature of the shell to have a very
different behaviour when a glob matches than when a glob does not match.

I have seen make commands fail because they contained unquoted "[a]"
arguments and someone just created a temporary file named a.

Fortunately, zsh fixes that: a glob that does not match either produce
an error or expand to an empty list.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-03 17:00 +0200
  Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-03 17:20 +0200
  Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-03 17:20 +0200
    Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-03 17:50 +0200
      Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-03 18:10 +0200
        Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-03 18:20 +0200
          Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-03 18:30 +0200
            Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-03 19:40 +0200
      Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-03 22:30 +0200
        Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-03 22:40 +0200
          Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-03 23:20 +0200
        Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-04 04:30 +0200
          Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-04 04:50 +0200
            Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Bob McGowan <ramjr0915@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 08:00 +0200
              Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-04 09:30 +0200
                Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-05-04 09:40 +0200
                Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-05-04 10:00 +0200
                Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-04 14:10 +0200
                Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-05-04 14:30 +0200
                Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-04 14:40 +0200
              Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-04 13:40 +0200
    Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-03 19:40 +0200
      Addendum Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-03 20:00 +0200
      Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-05-04 04:20 +0200
    Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 02:00 +0200
      Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 02:10 +0200

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