Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!lvc
From: lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: a ksh script for safe removal
Summary: forget it
Keywords: globbing
Message-ID: <3153@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 87 22:25:05 GMT
References: <3150@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Ohio State Computer & Info Science
Lines: 17

In article <3150@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> I wrote:

> #  This function checks if the arguments to it contain shell
> #  wildcards.  If so, it asks the user if they really want to
> #  proceed to remove their files named.  If there are not wild
> #  cards it just proceeds to remove them.
> 
	[buggy function removed]

This doesn't work and can't work.  The set -o noglob command inside
a function doesn't work the way I thought it would.  The reason
I thought I had it right had to do with the "set"tings on my login
shell.  Sigh.

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	Larry Cipriani AT&T Network Systems at
	cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!lvc Ohio State University