Jens

@jean No it will not fall into the Sun. You need to take into account the gain in velocity when falling towards the Sun (down the gravity well). There comes a point (called perihelion) when the bullet is so fast, it starts rising again. That's what happens for all elliptical orbits.

@AndréParamés I'm aware of this, and long range shooting needs to consider Coriolis force. But these are specific situations, not usual situations. In the vast majority of shots fired from guns, you'd aim at the object, no?

@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft I'm not a native speaker. But to shoot at something usually means pointing at it, doesn't it?

I have deleted my harsh comment.

Mate, I need to work... nice having a chat with you :-)

I'm using Cygwin where I can, with zsh.

I wouldn't touch a Windows shell with a ten foot pole :-)

Ok there is one exception, when globbing does not happen: when set -f (no filename expansion) is in effect. But the default for that is off.

It yields empty here.

Thanks, that would be helpful.

Beats me. Maybe it's a markup problem, swallonging the quoting?

Does not matter. All Bourne shells behave the same in this regard.

I apologize for the harsh word.

Well, all I can says is that command|grep * expands the * in any shell and that is almost certainly not what the author intended. Glob expansion is suppressed by quoting.

I'm on the POSIX comitte for Shell Standardization, if that means anything :-)

Yes it does. But commands in pipes can have arguments as well. And the shell expands globs BEFORE it starts any program in the pipeline.

bash on windows does not do globbing? Then it's broken.

I don't judge the quality of code by who wrote it. I judge by whether it does what it should. No, I haven't tried it, because I know how globbing works. But if seeing is believing: what does xrandr|echo * output on your machine?

@JonathanAllan Since when does the shell not glob expand after a pipe sign? That page you linked to with man man|grep * is crap.

@JonathanAllan Work. Like you asked in your first comment.

@JonathanAllan No, it wouldn't. An unescaped * is a glob that the shell expands to all files in the CWD.

$\pi$ seconds is a nanocentury.

"C/C++ is not a language." Indeed; it's undefined behaviour. :-)