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- From: jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer)
- Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.bugs.sys5,comp.bugs.misc,comp.sources.bugs
- Subject: Re: A serious bug in unix2dos/dos2unix
- Message-ID: <2527@ispi.COM>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 18:59:27 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.224109.15621@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Followup-To: comp.bugs.4bsd
- Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
- Lines: 31
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- haiying@cs.mcgill.ca (Haiying ZHANG) writes:
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- > I came across this bug a while ago. This has to do with using wild
- >card in file names with unix2dos/dos2unix.
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- > If you use a wild card in the file name, be it a single * or a ?
- >embedded in a pattern, these two handy utilities will wipe out your
- >entire current directory with the exception of the first file. It will
- >set all the rest of the file to size 0.
-
- > Although the man page does mention anything about wild card in
- >filename making one believe that it is not supported, it should not in
- >any case cause serious damaging to your files. While I am at it, these
- >two programs look like a recompile of its DOS version. It should have
- >provided more - options such as -Rfp etc. as in cp.
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-
- First, what system are you running on? Second, what are you trying to do?
- On a Sun system the dos2unix command is designed to operate on ONE file only,
- sending the output to the second file specification. The wild cards are
- expanded by the shell, and all the program sees is a long list of filenames.
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- It appears that you may be using it improperly.
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-
- JB
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