On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM Barry <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5 Aug 2025, at 08:01, Michael D. Setzer II via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Interesting. Wasn't sure why the * in an empty directory would have
> commands work but if in directory with files it would not?
The bash shell will pass on the wildcard, * is your example, if it cannot expand the wildcard.
Some other shell will instead print an error, I think zsh is like that.
% mkdir ~/tmp
% cd ~/tmp
% ls *
zsh: no matches found: *
George N. White III
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