[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> wrote:

> Especially people coming from Windows or DOS have problems with this
> feature. In the MS world, globbing expansion is done by the command
> itself: it will see the * literally in the parameters.

Well, technically, that depends on what shell you're running.  That's
true with the command.com and cmd.exe shells.  It's not true with some
others.

When back when I ran DOS (and when I run Windows), the globbing is
done by the shell: the way god intended.  ;)

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