Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: * Question Message-ID: <545@auspex.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 19:41:56 GMT References: <17661@adm.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 7 >And, if "csh" lets this work as shown, why does it NOT work when >creating the file initially? Because a "starname" must match something that already exists. The starname "foo/*/bar" will match all files named "bar" in any subdirectory of "foo" (except those whose name begins with "."). When creating the file initially, it doesn't exist yet....