On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 13:44:08 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >> Why use "*" (which caused you problems previously) rather than "." > >Not clear on the difference. See "not a UNIX professional." Did * cause me >problems? I thought it was a file named -x that caused the problems. Deleting >the file named -x sure solved the problem! > The "*" was a co-conspirator. A contrived example -- in directory: 597 $ ls -alN # (GNUism) total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm paulgilm 32 Nov 6 15:04 -- drwxr-xr-x 2 paulgilm paulgilm 4096 Nov 6 15:04 . drwxr-xr-x 4 paulgilm paulgilm 4096 Nov 6 14:58 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm paulgilm 32 Nov 6 15:04 !wombat -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm paulgilm 32 Nov 6 15:04 -wombat -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm paulgilm 32 Nov 6 15:04 .wombat
This may be what you want (the "./" are superfluous): 598 $ pax -vw . >/dev/null . ./-- ./-wombat ./!wombat ./.wombat pax: ustar vol 1, 5 files, 0 bytes read, 10240 bytes written. You may not want this (beware shell expansion!): 599 $ pax -vw * >/dev/null !wombat -wombat pax: ustar vol 1, 2 files, 0 bytes read, 10240 bytes written. >I took care to put the archive outside of the archived path. Not THAT dumb. ><g> > Likewise, what happens if you IEBCOPY unload a PDS into one of its own members? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
