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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Ksh question.
Message-ID: <3258@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 13:22:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 13:22:23 1987
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Keywords: ksh, vi mode, etc.

In article <367@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:

>imagine a directory which includes the file "sorted.news".
>I typed :
>
>ls s.
>
>and I got:
>
>lsorted.news
>
>Any ideas out there?

You should type * (that is, escape followed by a star) to get
filename completion.

So, for instance,

ls s*

will expand to

ls sorted.news
    
    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

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