On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:20:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > 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.
I'm pretty sure I used the latter construct, since (I dimly recall) I was trying to operate on files with a '.' in the name. Thanks for the clarification. This defuses martin's warning to an extent, but it's a gotcha that got me, and a learning experience. -- Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
