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$FreeBSD$
--- doc/bashref.texi.orig Tue Nov 13 18:55:03 2001
+++ doc/bashref.texi Tue Nov 20 23:52:45 2001
@@ -1700,7 +1700,8 @@
and replaced with an alphabetically sorted list of
file names matching the pattern. If no matching file names are found,
and the shell option @code{nullglob} is disabled, the word is left
-unchanged.
+unchanged. If the @code{failglob} option is set, an error message is
+printed and the commandline is not executed.
If the @code{nullglob} option is set, and no matches are found, the word
is removed.
If the shell option @code{nocaseglob} is enabled, the match is performed
@@ -1713,8 +1714,8 @@
matched explicitly.
In other cases, the @samp{.} character is not treated specially.
-See the description of @code{shopt} in @ref{Bash Builtins},
-for a description of the @code{nocaseglob}, @code{nullglob},
+See the description of @code{shopt} in @ref{Bash Builtins}, for a
+description of the @code{nocaseglob}, @code{nullglob}, @code{failglob}
and @code{dotglob} options.
The @env{GLOBIGNORE}
@@ -3372,6 +3373,10 @@
@item extglob
If set, the extended pattern matching features described above
(@pxref{Pattern Matching}) are enabled.
+
+@item failglob
+If set, filenames that have globbing characters in them, but don't match
+anything, will cause an error.
@item histappend
If set, the history list is appended to the file named by the value
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