Document that you must quote globs #54
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Seems silly that we should document that. There are a number of shell-specific ways to prevent your own arguments from expanding before being passed to the tool. I'd like to check what tools like |
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GNU tar(1) doesn't provide a useful manpage, but the info document does talk about this: http://www.manpagez.com/info/tar/tar-1.22/tar_104.php#SEC104 |
The shell likes to expand globs as conveniently as possible. Therefore, quote them when passing them to lsrc(1) and others (e.g. `-x '*vim*'`).
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The shell likes to expand globs as conveniently as possible. Therefore,
quote them when passing them to lsrc(1) and others (e.g.
-x '*vim*').