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From: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: tar & ulimit are pissing me off.
Keywords: tar, ulimit, gcc archive
Message-ID: <141@dumbcat.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 90 03:09:40 GMT
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Organization: MH Software, Hayward, Ca.
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    >> cat gcc-1.36.tar.Z.*[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] > gcc-1.36.tar.Z

In all the discussion about the above command no-one has pointed out that
the use of brackets here is incorrect.  Assuming C-shell, I believe the
original poster wanted (and perchance meant) ...Z*{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}.
Note the curly braces, not the brackets.  What was entered was a character
class that just happened to have the comma in it 10 times and the 0 and 1
twice.  An equivalent expression would be ...Z*[0-9,].  Also, when using the
curly braces the shell builds the arguments in the order given.

Besides that Conor's analysis was correct.

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