If the *.CAD is in single quotes ('*.CAD') the shell won't do the
expansion.Owen On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 14:36 -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote: > On 10/22/05, Warren Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you do something along the lines of <progname> *.CAD? > > I don't think that that will help. Unlike Windows where programs are > expected to expand file wildcards internally, *nix shells do that work > for the program. > > The shell expands globs before it calls a command, so > progname *.CAD > > gets expanded to: > > progname f1.CAD ... f300.CAD > > which will overflow any command buffer/argument count limit just as if > you'd typed the arguments yourself. > > I've seen situations where ls * failed in a directory with a lot of files. > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site > http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
