Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!cca!z 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 Lines: 15 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