Wow, thanks to all for the help!! David Dean Information Systems *bcbstauthorized*
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: CP Query wildcards By the way ... Unix cheats. The shell expands all wildcards, which I have always said is a mistake because it presumes on the context. The shell can only expand wildcards that are filenames. Not everything you might want to wildcard is a file. Wouldn't it be nice if you could 'ifconfig eth*'? It's just an observation, not a rant against Unix. Actually, I LIKE Unix and wish we all made more use of OpenVM. So ... to make 'q dasd' work the way David expresses, that function would need to call some kind of globbing subfunction. Same thing for 'ifconfig' in Linux and Unix. We need normalized namespace globbing, something which can be used by commands which don't necessarily do files, commands which are part of non-Unix stuff (like the CP Nuc). This stuff has been implemented in C time and again. Too bad CP doesn't have a C runtime instantiated. Oh ... wait ... It does! :-) And now back to your regularly scheduled list traffic. -- R; <>< On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:58, Dean, David (I/S)<david_d...@bcbst.com> wrote: > Why won't my wildcard work? > > > > > > q dasd l53701 > > DASD C018 CP SYSTEM L53701 1 > > DASD C0CE CP SYSTEM L53701 1 > > DASD C0CF CP SYSTEM L53701 1 > > > > CP > > q dasd l53* > > DASD L53* was not found. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > David Dean > > Information Systems > > *bcbstauthorized* > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee > E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm > ----------------------------------------------------- Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
