[lug] Joining commands?

Jani Averbach jaa at jaa.iki.fi
Thu Apr 8 09:06:30 MDT 2004


On 2004-04-08 08:15-0600, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> 
> '*.au' doesn't expand in the shell.  The ' means take the string *.au as
> the literal string <asterisk>.au.
> 

That wasn't problem in this case, because the pattern was going to
find's -name, and it is a pattern matching not a shell expangind which
is doing magic here behind curtains.

BR, Jani

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Jani Averbach




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