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Re: Grep puzzle. Bug?



On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 22:36:15 +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> But have you any idea why, with Mandrake, I was able to use it
> "incorrectly" and still get the desired result?

I don't.

> I.e. it did read all files under each directory, recursively, according to
> the pattern given (e.g. *.htm). Could the shell have been set up
> differently?

I'm not aware of a shell that (even with "weird" settings) expands "*"
recursively.

Ray
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