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From: brian@scgvaxd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: quotation of metacharacters in csh
Message-ID: <756@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 20:21:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 20:21:06 1987
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In article <326@voodoo.UUCP> tomm@voodoo.UUCP (Tom Mackey) writes:
>When the cshell is used to "list all files starting with file1;", like so:
>
>ls file1\;*
>
>it returns "No Match".

Um, what version of Unix/csh are you running?  On 4.[23]bsd systems at least,
this works just fine.  So does

ls file1';'*

and

ls file1";"*

						--Brian

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