Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal

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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal\r
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+On Tue, Feb 04 2014, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:\r
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+> Quoth Jani Nikula on Feb 01 at  4:54 pm:\r
+>\r
+>> I kind of like the "/**" suffix for recursive, but there's two small\r
+>> wrinkles: 1) it needs quoting on the command line (unlike my original\r
+>> suggestion of just "/" suffix), and 2) what should the top level\r
+>> recursive search be? path:"**" or path:"/**" or path:"./**"? I guess the\r
+>> first one is most obvious?\r
+>\r
+> The shell quoting is annoying, but depending on the shell, it should\r
+> at least give an error (zsh) or Just Work (apparently bash and sh pass\r
+> the unexpanded glob through if it doesn't match anything?).\r
+\r
+\r
+In zsh:\r
+\r
+$ echo whatever:/**\r
+whatever:/**\r
+\r
+Quick check with:\r
+ksh-20100621-12.el6.x86_64,\r
+dash-0.5.5.1-3.1.el6.x86_64\r
+busybox-1.15.1-20.el6.x86_64 (busybox sh & busybox ash)\r
+and\r
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/heirloom/files/heirloom-sh/050706/heirloom-sh-050706.tar.bz2/download\r
+\r
+all do the same (non-)expansion.\r
+\r
+\r
+I vaguely remember some shells did puke some error when expansion yielded\r
+no results... maybe some shell option does it. Definitely not mainstream\r
+feature.\r
+\r
+Tomi\r