another 2.1.0 compile error

[Mike Stroyan]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:28:15PM -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 15:24 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> 
> > Wildcards passed to commands must always be quoted or escaped
> 
> Well, no, not always any more. If I did something like "cd /root" first,
> then the yum commands work just fine. It's a bash feature that if the
> wildcard doesn't actually match anything, then it is passed as an
> argument verbatim (as opposed to csh, which would have complained "no
> match" and not done anything). 

You can get bash to complain about wildcards that _don't_ match a file
by adding
    shopt -s failglob
to your .bashrc.
Of course, that can leave you surprised later if you are expecting that
non-default behavior and start to work with a login that doesn't set it.
And setting it could make it harder to use scripts that do expect the
default behavior.

-- 
Mike Stroyan, mike.stroyan at hp.com