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• Either Way Can Be Wrong (Score:1)

  by Smylers (2592)

  I used to think that as well (though I'm not sure Posix are necessarily at fault: possibly they just codified what was already a de facto standard).

  Then I encountered a situation where I did need the command to run once, even with no arguments. In normal circumstances* the command runs exactly once regardless of the number of arguments, not once per argument, so there's consistency in making this always be once, even with no arguments.

  Whichever way they picked was going to be wrong sometimes. What they re
• There is worse precedent (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  Most shells will invoke foo and pass a literal bar.* as the first argument if you run foo bar.* if nothing in the current directory matches bar.*. In bash since 2.something you can shopt -s failglob to prevent this.

  But then the shell will also refuse to let you run foo bar.* baz.* if either bar.* or baz.* fail, when really you probably only wanted it to refuse if both fail. So basically you want the behaviour of shopt -s nullglob when there’s more than one glob.

  Or at least, you want that behaviour mos
• A LiveJournal reply (Score:2)

  by pne (661)

  There's another reply to this journal entry over here [livejournal.com].

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