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sr #107960: Command * or other wild card solve issues.

Submitter:	None
Submitted:	Tue 21 Feb 2012 02:12:01 AM UTC


Category:	None	Priority:	5 - Normal
Severity:	4 - Important	Status:	Wont Do
Privacy:	Public	Assigned to:	None
Originator Email:	-email is unavailable-	Open/Closed:	Open
Operating System:	None

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Wed 25 Mar 2015 11:23:05 AM UTC, comment #2: This is not a bug. Perhaps a RFE, to add a shopt that prompts the user when filenames that look like options are expanded. Severity should be 1 - Wish	Eduardo Bustamante <dualbus>
Wed 16 May 2012 09:01:57 PM UTC, comment #1: I also have this problem. This is a really annoying bug. I couldn't figure out what the problem was at first. After some tries I realized that the problem was a file whose named started with '-.' .	koosha <koosha>
Tue 21 Feb 2012 02:12:01 AM UTC, original submission: I think to fix this properly C way of handling main will have to be changed. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13712 Issue is nasty. rm -i * Seams fine until in the directory there is a file -rf as first file and deletes everything in the directory. or cat * and it hits a file called -. Over and over again user can expect one thing to happen yet the shell does something completely different. This is not userfriendly. Means training users to use ./* The POSIX solution is. POSIX.1-2008 ’s “base definitions” document section 4.7 (“Filename Portability”) specifically says “Portable filenames shall not have the <hyphen> character as the first character since this may cause problems when filenames are passed as command line arguments” Linux does not conform to this. Also other OS's don't conform so we cannot depend on this being the case.	Anonymous

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