Mea culpa. It had to do with the definition of: SOCEDS_DEST_ROOT It functions as advertised.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:38 PM Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020, at 12:59, John Chludzinski wrote: > > In the Bourne shell this works without hiccup: > > > > tar xf > $SOCEDS_DEST_ROOT/examples/hardware/a10_soc_devkit_ghrd/tgz/*.tar.gz > > How many files match that pattern? I don't need to know the number other > than, Is it zero, one, or more than one. > > > How do I accomplish this with fish? > > I would think the same way. Have you tried it in fish? What happened? > Copying and pasting the transcript (e.g. the error message if there is one) > would be helpful. > > > How does the * function in fish? > > It functions in a similar way as * does in Bourne Shell descendants, but I > assume that there might be some differences in behavior. It does behave a > differently when it fails to match. In BASH, when the * fails to match, > the shell leaves it unchanged. In fish, it triggers an error. > > Here is a troubleshooting tip that can help you figure out how the shell is > performing wildcard substitution. Replace the command (i.e. "tar xf") with > ls or echo in both Fish and the shell that you're using, and see how they > compare. > > By the way, when your refer to "Bourne shell" are you really referring to > Bourne shell? I suspect maybe not. Do you mean Bourne Again Shell? or > Almquist Shell? or Debian Almquist Shell? or Korn Shell? They are all > derived (not necenssarily in their source code, I mean in their behavior) > from Bourne Shell and compatible in some ways with /bin/sh scripts. > > -- > Contact me: I am available on SIP, Matrix/Riot, and Jami. Just ask for my > address. > > > _______________________________________________ > Fish-users mailing list > Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users >
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