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From: | Philip Rowlands |
Subject: | Re: echo bug FC3 ? |
Date: | Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:36:19 +0000 (GMT) |
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Eugen Mitu wrote:
OS: Fedora core 3 installed from rpms, all updates in place [user ~]$ /bin/echo [abcdefghtrsz] r t z
I suspect you have three files (or directories) named "r", "t", and "z", and the shell is passing those three arguments to echo.
Assuming that the shell is bash, the "Pathname Expansion" section of its manpage explains this behaviour.
Cheers, Phil
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