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Re: sometimes i go huh (grep result)

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:26:12AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:20:42AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > env |grep [-]g
> 
> Fails if there is a file named -g in the current directory, as that
> matches the unquoted glob and causes it to expand.  Also fails if failglob
> is turned on, whether the file exists or not (fails differently in the
> two cases).
> 
> Also fails if nullglob is turned on, but that is definitely not
> recommended in interactive shells.
> 
Quite right.  In my haste I forgot the quotes:

env |grep '[-]g'

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez

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sometimes i go huh (grep result) songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-08-27 17:20 +0200
  Re: sometimes i go huh (grep result) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-27 17:30 +0200
    Re: sometimes i go huh (grep result) Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-08-27 18:20 +0200
  Re: sometimes i go huh (grep result) Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-08-27 17:30 +0200
  Re: sometimes i go huh (grep result) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-08-27 17:30 +0200
  Re: sometimes i go huh (grep result) Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2018-08-27 20:10 +0200

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