Re: csh * expantion problem

1996-11-21 Thread Bruce Perens 
If you really want to echo an asterisk, use:

echo '*'

If you want to echo the list of files in the current directory, use:

echo *

If the current directory is empty, you will get the no match message.
Is that what is happening?

Bruce
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Re: csh * expantion problem

1996-11-21 Thread Neal R. Dalton 


On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

 If you want to echo the list of files in the current directory, use:
 
   echo *

The point is this doesn't work.  Is there a working version of csh?

Neal

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Re: csh * expantion problem

1996-11-21 Thread Raja R Harinath 
Neal R. Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Under csh (not a link to tcsh), when I do a echo *, I get the following 
 error:
 
   echo: No match.
 
 It work on other OSs.

I tried

  echo *

in an empty directory on a Solaris, SunOS, and HP/UX -- all the
`csh' and `tcsh' agree -- they are unified in saying:

  echo: No match.

Then, I said

  set nonomatch
  echo *

and, lo and behold, they all echoed a `*' at me.

 The point is this doesn't work.  Is there a working version of csh?

Fix your shell script.

- Hari

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csh * expantion problem

1996-11-20 Thread Neal R. Dalton 
Under csh (not a link to tcsh), when I do a echo *, I get the following 
error:

  echo: No match.

It work on other OSs.

Thanks,

Neal

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