Re: Back To The Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 5:06 AM, fulldisclosure <
fulldisclosure () evolution-hosting eu> wrote:

> to be honest, bash shouldn't expand * to "file1 file2 file3 -rf..." it
> should do it to "  'file1' 'file2' 'file3' '\-rf'..." instead, with all
> meta chars escaped properly.

But this breaks my directory metadata scheme: important directories contain
a file named "-i", unimportant ones have "-f".

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