strange problem with cvs remove ...

2000-10-03 Thread bk
greetings! I have a very interesting problem as following. I have a file in my repository named "copy of xyz.html". I want to remove this file from my repository. $bash: rm copy* $bash: cvs remove copy* and i got a very strange error: cvs remove: nothing known about `copy*' Normally this works

Re: strange problem with cvs remove ...

2000-10-03 Thread Derek R. Price
bk wrote: > $bash: rm copy* > $bash: cvs remove copy* > > and i got a very strange error: > cvs remove: nothing known about `copy*' This has to do with Bash interpreting wild cards and not CVS. Since 'copy*' doesn't resolve to an existing file, bash passes the literal to CVS and cvs doesn't kno

Re: strange problem with cvs remove ...

2000-10-03 Thread Larry Jones
bk writes: > > I have a very interesting problem as following. I have a file in my > repository named "copy of xyz.html". I want to remove this file from > my repository. > > $bash: rm copy* > $bash: cvs remove copy* Wildcards are handled by the shell -- in the first case, ``copy*'' is expanded