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From: z@cca.UUCP (Steve Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Bug in filename expansion
Message-ID: <6839@cca.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 10:50:39 EST
Article-I.D.: cca.6839
Posted: Sun Mar  4 10:50:39 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 23:58:09 EST
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In C shell scripts, it is supposed to be possible to quote the comment
character '#' by preceding it with a backslash, and in fact, tha command

	ls \#log

in such a script will list the file #log if such a file exists.
However, the C shell does not correctly handle certain special
characters after a quoted '#', so that the command

	ls \#*

and other variations on it will always produce the error message "No
match", no matter how many files there are that begin with '#'.

	Steve Zimmerman