Bug in glob.glob for files w/o extentions in Windows
Gerrit Holl
gerrit at nl.linux.org
Sun Nov 30 09:23:54 EST 2003
Francis Avila wrote:
> Behold the awesome visage of the One True Glob (TM): (Not that I'm starting
> a holy war or anything ;)
> *.* -> Filename has a dot in it, and that dot cannot be the first or last
> char.
> This is NOT the same as '*'!!
> .* -> Filename has a dot as the first character.
> *. -> Filename has a dot as the last character.
> * -> Gimme everything.
Note that Bash doesn't behave like this either: * does not give
everything, rather it gives everything not starting with a dot. In Bash,
* really means: [!.]*
yours,
Gerrit.
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