Re: File Globbing bug?

You mean, a file globbing bug specially when globbing for CVS*. Quite unlikely, don't you think?

Are you sure your current directory is what you think it is? Also, if all you want to know whether there is a CVS directory, why don't you use -d "CVS"?

Abigail

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Re: Re: File Globbing bug? by hmerrill (Friar) on Aug 05, 2002 at 16:45 UTC
No, what I mean is is there a file globbing bug that occurs when you enter some characters, and then a wildcard asterisk as a file glob, like <CVS>? The current directory _is_ what I think it is - most of the time the <CVS> works in finding the CVS directory when it is present, but somethimes it doesn't. I cannot reproduce this every time - it only happens sometimes. As soon as I sent the message, I realized that the -d test is what I should be using, so the code has been changed. But aside from that, does file globbing have a bug when specifying the first X characters in a filename followed by an asterisk wildcard?	[reply]
Re: File Globbing bug? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 06, 2002 at 08:35 UTC
Perhaps it does, but then it's unknown (it would be fixed if it was known). Please write a small program that exhibits the bug and use the perlbug command to report it. Abigail	[reply]