Just wondering if you have the original FreeBSD disks, in the original packing that being dated for example FreeBSD 2.2.5 November 1997,
Try to have a dig-out and a good look? Rgds SEanS On 09/03/2008, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > It's also a shell meta-character in the shells I'm familiar with, and > > > gets expanded long before grep would ever see it unless you escape it. > > > Hence the question about what shell the poster is using.... > > > > sh, bash, or ksh just pass it a long literally if not matched > > > > tcsh, csh complain if not match. The error message says the command name > > -- but that is bogus -- as the command is never even ran. Really it is the > > shell. > > Just for completeness: zsh is configurable in that regard. > When the option "nomatch" is set (the default), it behaves > like csh, otherwise it behaves like sh. (There are many > more options that configure the globbing behaviour.) > > Personally I prefer the default behaviour, i.e. giving an > error when there is no match. Using unquoted wildcards > and relying on the fact that there is no match can be very > dangerous. > > I also often make use of the feature that zsh expands glob > expressions when you press tab (or it beeps at you if > there is no match). So you can see exactly what files > are affected by a command _before_ pressing Enter. That > feature has saved me more than once. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Best regards > Oliver > > -- > Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. > Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: > secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- > chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart > > FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd > > "The ITU has offered the IETF formal alignment with its > corresponding technology, Penguins, but that won't fly." > -- RFC 2549 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
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