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wildcards / concurrency issue

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zikester

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Dec 2, 2009, 5:18:06 PM12/2/09
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If I have one script A running something like:
for q in [0-9]*; do XXX; done

and then I have another script B that adds either
- a file that matches the wild card
- a file that does not match the wild card

into that same directory, while the script A is running, how does that
affect the output of script A?

Isaac

Stephane CHAZELAS

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Dec 3, 2009, 3:27:37 AM12/3/09
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2009-12-2, 14:18(-08), zikester:
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It doesn't. The wildcard is expanded only once, when the for
loop is interpreted.

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Stï¿œphane

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