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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: FILEMATCH in /bin/sh
Message-ID: <12117@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 88 00:22:27 GMT
References: <4167@lynx.UUCP> <776@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <776@vsi.UUCP> by friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl):
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| >
| > What does the FILEMATCH environment (?) variable do to /bin/sh?
| > 
| 
| I don't find FILEMATCH in /bin/sh on a 3B2/400 running SVR3.
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Try "strings - /bin/sh" -- AT&T seems to like to put constant strings in
.text instead of .data!

However, it's not in my V.3 system either.  On the other hand, it was in
some V.2 systems I've used.  I have no idea how it was used, it was never
documented; but I'd guess it was the equivalent of "noglob" in csh.

++Brandon
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