yes this helps! i take your point about using * like that, the backquote
thing seems quite useful, i have been doing some surfing just prior to
reading your mail as and as i read things the backquotes mean that you can
execute a command and have the result take that place in the script,
i total
--- bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have a stack of roms for xmame that are in zip
> format and xmame won't
> recognise them (though i thought it would) i want to
> unzip each to a
> directory of the same name minus the .zip extension,
> however the default for
> unzip is to extract int
i have a stack of roms for xmame that are in zip format and xmame won't
recognise them (though i thought it would) i want to unzip each to a
directory of the same name minus the .zip extension, however the default for
unzip is to extract into the current directory, i can't get the -d option to
