Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Weird tcsh/rm problems. Message-ID: Date: 1 Apr 91 16:21:15 GMT Article-I.D.: raven.JC.91Apr1112115 Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: What do you mean I *can't* do that???? Lines: 39 System: SunOS 4.1.1 on a SparcStation 2 Problem: Cannot remove a particular file created by a mis-type in FrameMaker in tcsh; no problem in csh -jc- [raven: ~] % rm Lab-demo-printT rm: Lab-demo-printT: No such file or directory -jc- [raven: ~] % rm Lab-demo-print* rm: Lab-demo-printT: No such file or directory -jc- [raven: ~] % -jc- [raven: ~] % ls -al | grep lab -rw-rw-rw- 1 jc 23586 Mar 26 20:10 Lab-demo-print? drwxr-sr-x 2 jc 512 Mar 26 19:13 lab-demo/ -jc- [raven: ~] % csh -jc- [%m: %~] % rm Lab* -jc- [%m: %~] % exit -jc- [raven: ~] % ls -al | grep lab drwxr-sr-x 2 jc 512 Mar 26 19:13 lab-demo/ Anyone have some ideas? When I tried to execute anything else on the file in tcsh, it sent the eof indicator (ie, i have 'set ignoreeof' and commands on the file replied with 'Use "logout" to logout.') JC -- James Cameron - jc@raven.bu.edu | "But to risk we must, for the Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab | greatest hazard in life is to risk ECS Engineering Dept. | nothing. For the man or woman who Boston University, Boston MA | risks nothing, has nothing, does Work: 617 353-2879 | nothing, is nothing." Information Technology | Boston University, Boston MA | (Quote from the eulogy for the late work: 617 353-2780 ext. 338 | Christa McAuliffe.)