On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:03:21 +0200 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 6:47 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote: > > > In this case, you're mistaken. The double quotes work fine for > > this purpose (though the '-w' should be removed). > > If it's in double quotes, the shell will still try to interpret > the wildcard. If you want to protect it from that, you need to put > it in single quotes, or put a backslash in front of the asterisk -- > even though it's within the double quotes.
Hi Brad, OK, the quoting behavior is shell dependent. I use bash and it does what's needed. Here's some further examples/evidence: [EMAIL PROTECTED] relson]$ ls sy.*k ls: sy.*k: No such file or directory ### 1. show files matching sy*k ### [EMAIL PROTECTED] relson]$ ls sy*k sylpheed.log.bak sylpheedrc.bak ### 2. use same pattern in echo command with double quotes ### [EMAIL PROTECTED] relson]$ echo "sy*k" sy*k --- shell displays pattern, not filenames --- > The exact behaviour will differ depending on which shell you're > using, but all shells I know of, from Bourne shell under BSD Unix 2.9 > running on a PDP 11/70 in 1984 up through tcsh, bash, ksh, and other > more advanced shells running on more modern machines, will all try to > interpret what they think is a wildcard unless it is properly escaped > -- either through quoting or application of preceding backslash > characters. > > > The egrep command is intended for scanning mailman's source code > > with the goal of finding the relevant html (or html generator) in > > order to determine the cgi parameters for discarding deferred > > items. > > Then this needs to be done in a specific subdirectory tree which > > would include Python source code and not other general data files, > such as $MAILMAN_HOME/Mailman or $MAILMAN_HOME/bin, because otherwise > you still run into the possibility of trying to throw 20,000+ files > at it. No! Recursive grep commands include a directory specification, hence don't need to be executed from a specific subdirectory. My "egrep -r ... /usr/lib/mailman" command searches mailman's source tree. Question: What shell are you using? Have you tried executing my command? Regards, David ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
