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From: allyn@sdcsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: An odd difference between "cat file" and "cat<file"
Message-ID: <684@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Apr-84 10:02:08 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 18 10:02:08 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Apr-84 04:17:11 EST
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You are incorrect.  The shell (both csh and sh on our 4.2 BSD system)
does expand commandnames as long as the name you are trying to expand to is 
in your current directory.  Try 'cd /bin' (or wherever you keep it) 
and then 'ca* /etc/passwd'  This works on our system.

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 From the virtual mind of Allyn Fratkin           sdcsvax!allyn@Nosc
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