On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:07:24AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > I did this once, then panicked and halted the process when I heard > a lot of disk activity. The problem is (I think) that the wildcard > matches the .. file and the process recurses back into the parent > directory, etc.
'*' doesn't match .. in normal (POSIX) shells. '.*' does, though. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
