Globbing omits file that should be included

[Terry Jones]

Hi. I just ran into a globbing problem that doesn't at first sight seem to
be caused by my environment. Details below.

Terry

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Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i386
OS: darwin8.5.1
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' 
-DCONF_OSTYPE='darwin8.5.1' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-apple-darwin8.5.1' 
-DCONF_VENDOR='apple' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMACOSX  -I. -I/sw/lib/include 
-I. -I./include -I./lib  -I/sw/include -no-cpp-precomp
uname output: Darwin terry-jones-computer.local 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 
8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
Machine Type: i386-apple-darwin8.5.1

Bash Version: 2.05b
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release

Description:

I have a mail directory with 6629 files in it. There is a file in the
directory called OUT:

  ~/mail $ ls -la OUT
  -rw-rw-r--    1 terry    terry    52088059 Aug 23 17:17 OUT

There are also a bunch of other files, with names in the form
OUT-YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD:

  ~/mail $ ls OUT*
  OUT-19890919-19900313  OUT-19941030-19950522  OUT-19981217-19990529  
OUT-20030113-20030326  OUT-20060606-20061125
  OUT-19900314-19901018  OUT-19950523-19951128  OUT-19990530-19990926  
OUT-20030327-20030602  OUT.misc01
  OUT-19901019-19910307  OUT-19951129-19960618  OUT-19990927-20000305  
OUT-20030603-20031001  OUT.misc02
  OUT-19910308-19910827  OUT-19960619-19970203  OUT-20000306-20000630  
OUT-20031002-20040509  OUT.misc03.asc
  OUT-19910828-19911129  OUT-19970204-19970531  OUT-20000701-20001120  
OUT-20040510-20041122  OUT.misc04
  OUT-19911130-19920517  OUT-19970601-19970817  OUT-20001121-20010504  
OUT-20041123-20050213  OUT.misc05
  OUT-19920518-19921209  OUT-19970818-19980226  OUT-20010505-20011002  
OUT-20050214-20050713
  OUT-19921210-19930727  OUT-19980227-19980721  OUT-20011003-20020319  
OUT-20050714-20051101
  OUT-19930728-19940321  OUT-19980722-19981026  OUT-20020320-20020817  
OUT-20051102-20060129
  OUT-19940322-19941029  OUT-19981027-19981216  OUT-20020818-20030112  
OUT-20060130-20060605

Notice how the OUT file is not included in the expansion of OUT* ???

I don't have any globbing vars set to do anything weird.

As a test, when I make a new empty directory and touch the above file names
(plus OUT), the OUT file _is_ matched by OUT*. I don't think any of the
file names are affecting ls, as ls -- OUT* also misses the OUT file in the
original dir, as does echo OUT*  But, echo OUT* matches OUT in the test
directory.

So it looks like the failure to match OUT in my original directory has
something to do with the directory itself.