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authorJoey Hess2015-10-02 10:51:12 -0400
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2015-10-02T14:49:19Z"
+ content="""
+Wildcard expansion is done by the shell, and cmdProperty does not run a
+shell. So, you've told rm to delete a
+file with a literal '*' in its name, which it's happy to report success
+with, since no such file exists..
+
+Using scriptProperty would be one way to do this.
+"""]]