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- From: bq035@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brian Jepson)
- Subject: Minit and echo * problem
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.154925.6753@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 15:49:25 GMT
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- Hi. I've just experimented with minit.ttp on one of my small partitions to see
- if it was something I'd like. But I'm having trouble getting all the filenames
- recognized by a shell. I've used init, ksh, bash, and tcsh, and so far, the
- only shell that will correctly return all the full length filenames when I
- echo * is tcsh. Using ls from the futils is no problem, I get all the files
- listed. But if I were to ls *, I would have a problem. The expansion seems to
- only be correct in tcsh. However, I have noticed that in the root directory,
- the shells seem to do ok, and even with init, bash, and ksh, *some* filenames
- get expanded okay, even in subdirs. I use mfsconf to set all short name
- replacements to neither (-l n -s n -d n -x n ? I can't remember if it's a n, but
- you get the jist, I'm not at my Atari now), so as to always have the full names.
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- Has anyone else dealt with this? Is it some subtle thing I'm missing? Any help
- is greatly appreciated.
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