On Wed, Feb 05 2014, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04 2014, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote: > > > In zsh: > > $ echo whatever:/** > whatever:/** Except (retested after seeing related IRC msg from Austin): $ unsetopt no_nomatch $ echo whatever:/** zsh: no matches found: whatever:/** We can maybe document this (and bash nullglob) for users to decide how they want their shells to behave... Tomi > Quick check with: > ksh-20100621-12.el6.x86_64, > dash-0.5.5.1-3.1.el6.x86_64 > busybox-1.15.1-20.el6.x86_64 (busybox sh & busybox ash) > and > http://sourceforge.net/projects/heirloom/files/heirloom-sh/050706/heirloom-sh-050706.tar.bz2/download > > all do the same (non-)expansion. > > > I vaguely remember some shells did puke some error when expansion yielded > no results... maybe some shell option does it. Definitely not mainstream > feature. ... or maybe it is after all ;/ > > Tomi