Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!noao!amethyst!eros!barsam From: barsam@eros.ame.arizona.edu (Barsam Marasli) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: help needed with ar Message-ID: <826@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> Date: 22 Sep 88 21:51:08 GMT Sender: news@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu Reply-To: eros!barsam@arizona.edu Distribution: na Organization: AME Dept., Univ. of Arizona at Tucson Lines: 16 I am looking for a shell script that will enable me to delete some modules from an archive with names that match a given pattern. ar d junk*.o doesn't work because the pattern junk*.o is searched from the current directory rather than the archive list. Thanks in advance. Please email. --------------------------------------------------------------- Barsam Marasli Internet: eros!barsam@arizona.edu UUCP : ...{allegra,cmcl2,hao!noao}!arizona!eros!barsam Bitnet : barsam@arizrvax