Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Java Man) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: shell globbing universal ????? Message-ID: <14107@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 11:52:04 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.14107 Posted: Fri Dec 4 11:52:04 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 03:38:15 EST Reply-To: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Java Man) Organization: Audible Boy Birdwatcher Society Lines: 16 Yesterday I read here how groovy it is that wildcard expansion is done by the shell, so the semantics are the same for every command. Today: o 203% ls gnuemacs.tar patch.tar.Z o 204% dd if=g* No match. o 205% set if=g* o 206% echo $if gnuemacs.tar (SunOS 3.4 csh, but I'm sure they're all the same ...) Matt Crawford