On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:07:39PM +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:51:31PM +1100, Stewart wrote:
> > yup, that did it.
> >
> > # 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. :-)
>
> You need to "man bash" instead, and read under "Brace Expansion". :-)
I'm sure we're all sick of distro-bashing, but I don't think that man
bashing is the way to go.
cheers,
Woody
PS: on a serious note, your shell might not be bash, man `perl -le'print $ENV{SHELL}
=~ /(\w*)$/'`, instead.
PPS: then perldoc perl :-)
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