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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
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>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....