Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:30:45PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > > Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > fvwm-2.5.4 > > > > > > I have the following line in a configuration file > > > > > > PipeRead 'for i in Menu/*.men; do echo read $i; done' > > > > The for i in part is relative to $HOME. > > The fvwm read command reads in $HOME/.fvwm. > > Pardon my ignorance, but I still don't quite understand. How is the > ``for i in'' part relative to $HOME when the error message says: > > [FVWM][Read]: <<ERROR>> file 'Menu/*.men' not found in \ > /home/norvell/.fvwm or /usr/share/fvwm
You still see the "*" in the file name because the shell didn't expand Menu/*.man since no file matched. Go to $HOME/.fvwm and type in: ls 'Menu/*.man' I hope I'm explaining this right, its getting late. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
