17 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionsRe: Please Help ... I am locked out o...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Branson Matheson | May 8, 1996 5:22 am | |
| Sean Kelly | May 8, 1996 8:16 am | |
| Sean Kelly | May 8, 1996 8:34 am | |
| gar...@frt.dec.com | May 8, 1996 10:04 am | |
| Test Account | May 8, 1996 11:05 am | |
| Sean Kelly | May 8, 1996 1:40 pm | |
| James Raynard | May 8, 1996 4:50 pm | |
| Toshihiro Kanda | May 8, 1996 7:26 pm | |
| Michael Smith | May 8, 1996 8:33 pm | |
| pa...@asimov.volant.org | May 9, 1996 7:47 am | |
| Sean Kelly | May 9, 1996 8:07 am | |
| Garrett Wollman | May 9, 1996 8:39 am | |
| Dan Nelson | May 9, 1996 9:09 am | |
| ma...@nibsc.ac.uk | May 9, 1996 9:31 am | |
| Sean Kelly | May 9, 1996 10:09 am | |
| Toshihiro Kanda | May 9, 1996 7:05 pm | |
| Gabor Zahemszky | May 13, 1996 8:46 am |
| Subject: | Re: Please Help ... I am locked out of a FreeBSD machine | |
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| From: | Gabor Zahemszky (zga...@CoDe.hu) | |
| Date: | May 13, 1996 8:46:21 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-questions | |
I've been wondering what you all were talking about, since on my machine, "echo .*" does NOT list "." or "..". I checked the man pages for zsh, and sure enough, under "FILENAME GENERATION (GLOBBING)", I see:
No filename generation pattern matches the files "." or "..".
Can ash maybe be patched to do this also? I can't think of a case where you would EVER want to match '.' or '..' in a wildcard.
-Dan Nelson da...@dan.emsphone.com
The problem is that the original shells generates . and .., and so many people like compatibility. I don't know zsh, but AT&T's ksh, and bash, the original UCB csh and tcsh all of them generate . and .. - the one I know, is the pdksh which doesn't do it. If a shell doesn't generate it, isn't compatible with the wrong (?) Unix standard.
Sorry.
-- Gabor Zahemszky <zga...@CoDe.hu>
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