# echo $Fete* # * i don't undestand the signification of that could you help me , is this normal ????
I am not familiar with ksh, but bash would read the above as a variable followed by an `*'. And since with almost all proboblity $Fete is not defined to anything, it will expand it to nothing. Thus you will end up with only "*". I suppose that ksh uses the same way of naming variables, i.e. $VARNAME. Here is an short example to help clarify the above: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/t$ ls 1 2 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/t$ echo $Fete* 1 2 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/t$ Fete=foobar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/t$ echo $Fete* foobar* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/t$ So if you want to delete a file named "$foo$" you would need to escape that like this "\$foo\$". Then you would get the desired effect that you are seeking. Hope this helps, cheers. _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
