+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1076343 +++

Description of problem:

  glob doesn't work in tcsh.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  tcsh-6.18.01-8.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:

  Always.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Make three files.
  % touch {a,b,c}.txt

2. Use glob
  % echo `glob *.txt`

Actual results:

  a.txt

Expected results:

  a.txt b.txt c.txt

Additional info:

  It works on RHEL4.

--- Additional comment from penguin admin on 2014-03-15 00:00:31 EDT ---

I noticed this works in tcsh
echo `glob \*txt`
a.txt b.txt c.txt

$ rpm -q tcsh
tcsh-6.17-24.el6.x86_64

also:
$ set globit='glob *.txt'
$ $globit
a.txtb.txtc.txt

--- Additional comment from Jaromír Končický on 2014-03-17 06:32:22 EDT ---

This worked for me too:

$ set textdocs=*.txt
$ echo $textdocs
a.txt b.txt c.txt

Do you want/need to use `glob *.txt` for any purpose (in some script)?

--- Additional comment from Pavel Raiskup on 2014-03-17 11:50:00 EDT ---

(In reply to Yoshifumi Kinoshita from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
>   glob doesn't work in tcsh.

The glob does work, you just get the output as one string of many file-names
matching divided by the 'zero-byte'.  This is not the same as the echo works
(echo puts space between matching file-names).

From `man tcsh`:

  glob wordlist
    Like  echo,  but the `-n' parameter is not recognized and words
    are delimited by null characters in  the  output.   Useful  for
    programs  which wish to use the shell to filename expand a list
    of words.

So the problem here is probably that backticks are not able to parse the
'null' terminating character.  Could our customer use rather 'echo' instead?

Not sure whether this is a bug or not, this is currently also upstream issue
and worth asking there.

Pavel

--- Additional comment from Fridolín Pokorný on 2015-02-04 07:35:43 EST ---

Upstream accepted proposed patch:

http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/tcsh-bugs/2015-February/000920.html