Re: [SLUG] my next stupid question

[Mike Holland]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Alister Waller wrote:

> for i in `ls *.TXT`

ALister, as in the last question, you dont seem to be aware that wildcard
expansion is done by the shell, not by the command as in MS-DOS.
  So the 'ls' does nothing useful, and may cause errors. Shells are
complex, and worth reading about.

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Mike Holland  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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