10 Sep
2010
10 Sep
'10
11:15 a.m.
Am 09.09.2010 18:48, schrieb Victor Lowther:
*.ext` etc. would result in ls being passed an argument '*.ext' in the event that *.ext doesn't match anything. With nullglob set, no argument
gets passed and you end up with just `ls` which is likely to cause subtle bugs.
Sounds like another reason to never parse the output of ls in a shell script ( not that I needed more).
Agreed! If such a thing is still in the scripts, it should be replaced (I think Victor did that in a few places).