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tcsh: if can't expand a filename, tells the user it was the subprograms fault #76

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josefs10 opened this issue Jul 4, 2023 · 0 comments

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josefs10 commented Jul 4, 2023

Copying an old issue from debian here:

> echo asdasd*
echo: No match.

This happens for any program -- the error message is printed such that
it looks like the subprogram bailed, not that the shell can't find a
match, and bailed without even starting up the subprogram.

The error message should look something like this perhaps:

> echo asdasd*
tcsh: echo: No match.

For us "only use tcsh under protest" types, such an uninformative
error message is worse than useless - leading us down very dark alleys
while trying to debug small problems.

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