Tom Condon...

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:13:15AM -0800, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> 
> 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.  ;-}>

My pleasure. I'm sure they are many more bazookas out there for you
to use when blowing your leg off. ;-)