Re^2: A bizarre way to get a list of filenames

or by using traditional shell file expansion mechanisms

I'm glad you didn't suggest <*.xml *.txt> :-) Splitting its arguments on whitespace by default is IMHO one of the caveats of glob.

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Re^3: A bizarre way to get a list of filenames by davido (Cardinal) on Aug 05, 2019 at 16:04 UTC
Truth be known, I tested the splitting on whitespace approach while composing the response and deemed it to work in this case, but to be too fragile to bother introducing as another option. Dave	[reply]