rm(1) bug, possibly serious

[Oliver Fromme]

Dan Nelson wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme said:
 > > The expansion of "*" does not include "." or "..".
 > 
 > Under /bin/sh, ".*" does match "." and "..", so be careful :)

For that reason I got used to type ".??*" instead of ".*"
since I started with UNIX almost 20 years ago.  ;-)

Apart from that, zsh is my shell of choice.  It never
matches "." or ".." with any globbing patterns.  I think
no shell should.  I would submit an appropriate patch
for FreeBSD's sh if it would be committed, but I doubt
it would.  Even this discussion here about an obvious
bug in rm has bikeshed tendencies.  :-(

Best regards
   Oliver

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