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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1817 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:59:34 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ncrgw2!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: mread, mwrite, mformat, etc. docs? Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 08:34:09 GMT Message-ID: <C2sIGy.B0z@sugar.neosoft.com> Keywords: man mread mwrite /usr/local/bin/* References: <20FEB199314013373@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> <1m6numINN5rk@apache.dtcc.edu> <1993Feb21.032459.1626@netcom.com> Lines: 24 In article <1993Feb21.032459.1626@netcom.com> elie@netcom.com (Elie I. Mourad) writes: > In article <1m6numINN5rk@apache.dtcc.edu> chuck@apache.dtcc.edu (Chuck Whealton) writes: > >In article <20FEB199314013373@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> hodgesmp@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (HODGESMP) writes: > >>mread b:*.* /tmp > >>mread: No match. > >$ mread b:"*.*" /tmp <--- Note the "" quotes. > >I had this problem before. It seemed you didn't have to use them > >while in the installation procedure, but after that, you would > >encounter the same problems you have. Why? I have no idea. > The programs that are distributed in the bin01.01 are buggy. Nothing to do with it. The shells are responsible for handling wildcards. If you want to interpret wildcards in a namespace the shell can't see, you have to quote them. However, as a special case, the bourne shell (the one on the floppies) passes through "no match" cases straight to the program. The CSH (the default login shell on the hard disk) doesn't do this, but instead lets you know there were no matching files. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.