strange ( * vs ./* )

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

Matan Ziv-Av <matan at svgalib.org> writes:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Erez D wrote:
>
>> erez at homer:~$ grep pppd *
>> erez at homer:~$
>>
>> however:
>>
>> erez at homer:~$ grep pppd ./*
>> ./chat.sh:pppd connect 'chat -v -s ABORT ERROR ABORT'
>
> Do you have a file whose name starts with a dash (-)?

Definitely a candidate... Some less likely things to check:

Verify there is no alias to grep (or script in path) with --exclude of
some sort, or --null, or some other weird stuff.

Check GLOBIGNORE.

What does "shopt -s" say? Is there anything special, e.g., in extglob?

SHELLOPTS? BASHOPTS?

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Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org