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From: tomm@voodoo.UUCP (Tom Mackey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: quotation of metacharacters in csh
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Date: Wed, 6-May-87 17:44:08 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  6 17:44:08 1987
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A friend of mine who is not on the net recently ran into a strange
situation that he (and I, too) would like some help on.  He frequently
brings over large numbers of files from a VMS system which have file
names followed with a semi-colon and a version number:

file1;001
file1;002
file1;003

Now there might also be other files as follows:

file1.dat
file1

When the cshell is used to "list all files starting with file1;", like so:

ls file1\;*

it returns "No Match".

Yet the same command under the Bourne shell works as expected.  What am I
missing?  How do you do the task using the cshell?

Thanks for any light you may shed on this mystery.

-- 
Tom Mackey                                (206) 342-1442 (wk)
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