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  3. December 2003

Re: IFS gotcha - potential disaster

Vern Hamberg wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Barbara - I guess this suppresses the expansion of wildcards, eh? I
> forgot about that in a Unix-style setting.
> 

Right.  The \ turns the following character into an ordinary character
without special meaning, so \* only matches an asterisk in the name . 
You could still use wildcards - \**.\* escapes the first and last * but
not the second one, so it would match any filename starting with * and
ending with .*
   *.* 
   *a.* 
   *abc.*

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