Whoops... <insert embarrassed smiley here>. I just got it. That's what happens when you start pounding away on the keybaord without thinking about it first. Thanks for the prompt response, guys. At least we all got a laugh out of it (at least I did :-)).
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 12:35 +1000, Johny Mattsson wrote: > On 05/05/06 12:30, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: > > I'm posting this to -questions and -stable, since I'm not sure if it is > > a problem or if I'm simply overlooking something. > > You're overlooking something :) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat S56/vcs/20060504/*.vcs >> S56/vcs/20060504/cal.vcs > > The shell creates the "cal.vcs" file before it expands the glob (the > *.vcs), and therefore the cat command ends up using cal.vcs as input as > well, causing a nasty feedback loop. > > Cheers, > /Johny -- Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+591-705)98290 http://lopisaur.googlepages.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"