<quote who="Stewart">
> # cat /etc/*{version,release}
> cat: /etc/*version: No such file or directory
> Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
>
> i've not seen that syntax before. i shall now have to go and 'man cat'
> to find out what it is I just did. :-)
cat(1) won't tell you, because the interesting things there were just
standard shell globbing. man 3 glob will tell you a bit about it, but I'm
not sure of the best place (apart from the SLUG mailing list) to find good
information on globbing tricks.
What I did above meant 'cat all files that match /etc/* and then either
"version" or "release"'. On my Debian machine, it gives the following
output:
$ cat /etc/*{version,release}
testing/unstable
cat: /etc/*release: No such file or directory
In my case, the matched file was debian_version, in your case it was
redhat-release (dash or underscore? I don't remember off-hand).
A useful trick:
ls *.py{c,}
I'll leave working it out and posting the "answer" to you. :-)
- Jeff
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