ls and wildcards

[Eric Blake]

Karl M <karlm30 <at> hotmail.com> writes:

> I just noticed while looking around after updating dash that "ls /bin/*sh" 
does not find bash and dash, but
> it does on my Fedora core 6 machine at work. I see the issue in both 1.5 and 
1.7, attached is an example in
> cygwin 1.7.

[http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL]

The issue is not ls, but glob() and fnmatch(), which do not have the same .exe 
magic as other functions.  In short, fnmatch is merely comparing the pattern 
against the values returned by readdir().  Either we could teach readdir() to 
omit .exe (similar to how open() and stat() recognize 'ash' as a synonym 
for 'ash.exe'), or teach the pattern matchers to to ignore the .exe returned by 
readdir() (but still allow searches like *.exe to work).  I'm sure that 
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC

-- 
Eric Blake




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