[sf-lug] path name expansion

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 21:11 -0700, Alex Kleider wrote:
> Where have I misunderstood?

The expansion of the * is not just within the part of the path before
the /, but within the whole path. If foo*/bar does not match any file
named bar in any directory matching foo*, then the * is not expanded.
> 
> ps I'm running Ubuntu 14.04LTS (still) and the shell, I believe, is 
> dash, not bash.

The default shell in 14.04 is bash, even for root.