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From: uri@arnor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Strangeness in shell
Message-ID: <332@arnor.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 89 18:01:26 GMT
References: <1643IA80001@MAINE>
Organization: IBM Corp., Yorktown NY
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From article <1643IA80001@MAINE>, by IA80001@MAINE.BITNET (George Newell):
> When you put the asterisk (*) on a line with spaces around it, the shell will
> substitute all the names in the current directory for it.  Apparently, when you
> included the letter after the asterisk and space, the shell interpreted the
> letter as a path name for the directory listing to print.  I hope this info
> helps.
> 
>
Disagree. Shell tries to substitute _special_ symbols. Means - when it
sees "normal" letter - it will echo it, simply. So the output of
   echo * x
will be:
  <current directory list> x

That's it.
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