[sf-lug] path name expansion

[Alex Kleider]

On 2016-08-18 21:31, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> 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.

Yes, that makes sense; pity though- it would have been a slick way of 
creating a bunch of files for testing things.
Thanks for the clarification.

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

Would the following not suggest otherwise?
alex at X301n3:~/Test$ ls -l $(which sh)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr  8 16:28 /bin/sh -> dash