(12-04-2021, 02:35 PM)mort Wrote: I don't know whether this is technically correct according to POSIX or not, but it doesn't work in ZSH. In ZSH, "test/.*" is an error if there are no hidden files in the directory, and "test/*" is an error if there are no non-hidden files in the directory.

POSIX says:

Quote:If the pattern does not match any existing filenames or pathnames, the pattern string shall be left unchanged.

So I guess it’s fine. :)

(I wish POSIX would demand Bash’s “nullglob” option. That’s what I want 99.999999% of the time.)