Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpcupt1!hpsal2!morrell From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Empty Directory? (Was: Picking a character from a word) Message-ID: <2450009@hpsal2.HP.COM> Date: 11 May 88 20:53:59 GMT References: <13241@brl-adm.ARPA> Organization: HP System Architecture Lab, Cupertino Lines: 20 / hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / mdorion@cmtl01.UUCP (Mario Dorion) / 7:15 pm May 7, 1988 / BTW: what does "set nonomatch" do ??? -- Mario Dorion | ...!{rutgers,uunet,ihnp4}! Frisco Bay Industries | philabs!micomvax!cmtl01!mdorion Montreal, Canada | 1 (514) 738-7300 | I thought this planet was in public domain! ---------- In csh, setting "nonomatch" causes the shell to leave unchanged a construct like "*" which does not match anything, rather than giving an error message. For example, if my current directory only has the file "foo" and I type: ls b* I will normally get an error ("No match"). If nonomatch is set, however, the shell will say: "b* not found". Michael Morrell