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Sun Apr 15 11:26:25 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/103461.html

Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:43:51 GMT, ben at co.and.co <ben at co.and.co> pisze:

> > cat * > mylargefile
> > 
> > though this won't read the dotfiles.
> 
> But $ cat .* * > mylargefile does. 

Except when there are no dotfiles and the shell passes patterns not
matching to anything unmodified: most shells do that by default,
some may be told to not do it.

Well, it will still work, only cat will give an error.

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