I found my problem was I wasn't including quotes on both sides of the @ and
still allow easy command completion in the shell.
Best method I found was
pico '@'<tab> which lets me still use command completion.
Thanks to the list for the help. yes I know its shell basics.. but how many
other times do I come across with filenames that start with metacharacters?
=)
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 10:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question about cyclog
"Steve Kapinos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How the heck can I enter in the shell the file name of the logs cyclog puts
>out?
>
>@ is a reserved character it seems.. if I want to pico a log, what do I
need
>to put around the @ so I can actually enter the file name?
This is really a shell question, not a qmail question, but something
like:
pico \@00000944228362
pico "@00000944228362"
pico '@00000944228362'
pico *00000944228362
should do the trick.
If you're using bash, you can add:
shopt -u hostcomplete
to your .bashrc to make "@" a non-metacharacter.
-Dave
