Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Thank you, Bill Joy! Message-ID: <65@volition.dec.com> Date: 20 Aug 88 23:19:33 GMT Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 28 I just got a smile out of a command which sort of jumped out of my fingers, ahead of my brain. I thought that the csh gets enough bad publicity that I'd share the cause of my grin: % mkdir {man,cat}{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} % ls -l total 16 drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 cat1/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 cat2/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 cat3/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 cat4/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 cat5/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 cat6/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 cat7/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 cat8/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 man1/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 man2/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 man3/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 man4/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 man5/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 man6/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 man7/ drwxrwxr-x 2 root 512 Aug 20 16:15 man8/ -- Paul Vixie Digital Equipment Corporation Work: vixie@dec.com Play: paul@vixie.UUCP Western Research Laboratory uunet!decwrl!vixie uunet!vixie!paul Palo Alto, California, USA +1 415 853 6600 +1 415 864 7013