Bug in filename expansion
Steve Zimmerman
z at cca.UUCP
Mon Mar 5 01:50:39 AEST 1984
In C shell scripts, it is supposed to be possible to quote the comment
character '#' by preceding it with a backslash, and in fact, tha command
ls \#log
in such a script will list the file #log if such a file exists.
However, the C shell does not correctly handle certain special
characters after a quoted '#', so that the command
ls \#*
and other variations on it will always produce the error message "No
match", no matter how many files there are that begin with '#'.
Steve Zimmerman
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