Tom Condon...

Condon Thomas A KPWA tcondon
Mon May 17 11:44:15 PDT 2004


Kurt Wall <mailto:kwall at kurtwerks.com> typed thusly on Sunday, February 09,
2003 3:43 PM:

> ...the shell option you want is "dotglob", or, rather, to
> disable dotglob. From the bash manual page:
> 
>               dotglob If set, bash includes  filenames 
>                       beginning with  a  `.'  in  the 
>                       results  of pathname expansion.
> So, "shopt -u dotglob" should disable "." expansion in
> pathname expansions.
> 
> Kurt

Thanks.  Now I can avoid shooting myself with that particular gun.  ;-}>

In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
Barbershop Bass Singer
Registered Linux User #154358
A Jester Unemployed


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