On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 10:49:30AM +0300, Eric Pozharski wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 09:08:16AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 10:31:19PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > > On 2021-09-16 22:30, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > *SKIP* > > The command for finding the correct display driver: > > root@devuan:~# apt-cache search xserver-xorg-video-.* | pager > > Shouldn't the '*' be quoted in some manner so that the apt-cache > > command gets to interpret it instead of the shell: > > No, it might not. It's bashism (zsh has special option to let filename > generation fail, and it's unset by default; while bash) > > % bash > bash-5.1$ echo abc* > abc*
So if there's no file matching the pattern, bash leaves the pattern as is without replacing it with nothing? Interesting. I'll have to think twice before I use * in a file name in a shell command. At least rm abc* will still remove a file actually called abc* Net question: how to get a '/' in a file name instead of having it interpreted as a separator in a path. I needed it once long ago when using a file system that had been built on another OS. I resorted to using a hexadecimal editor on the raw disk to get rid of the thing. -- hendrik > > It's risky indeed, but it's hard to imagine files with > 'xserver-xorg-video-.' prefix just laying around (these days). > > p.s. Ok then. Done with get-off-my-lawn mode this time. > > *CUT* > -- > Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination > Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng