08-16-2013
Thanks!
...and sorry about not using the code tag in my post.
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Originally Posted by
Scrutinizer
If you leave a pattern unquoted it will work too, unless there happens to be one or more files in the current directory that match that pattern (the shell will then expand the pattern first), which can lead to surprising results, so it is a good habit to quote those patterns..
My takeaway is to use quotes.
I can also see that I don't understand the difference between the shell expanding the wildcards and the command expanding the wildcards. I'll go back and read again. I'll try some test file names to see how things work.
(Now I see that there is a "Thanks" button.)
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