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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:00:29 -0600
From:      sedwards@qrwsoftware.com
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?
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In-Reply-To: <20030723215524.GF3178@dan.emsphone.com>
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Quoting Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>: 
 
> In the last episode (Jul 23), Rus Foster said: 
> > > cd seems to work (I can cd to directories that I know exist, but 
> > > get an error if I try to cd to a directory that doesn't), but echo 
> > > always just returns * 
> >  
> > hmm strange...it could be the shell as echo * on mine does and ls 
>  
> "echo *" in an empty directory will print "*", since /bin/sh passes 
> unmatched patterns through. 
>  
> --  
> 	Dan Nelson 
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com 
>  
 
But I would think that this means the shell couldn't open the directory to 
get the filenames to match? 
 
-Scott 
 
 



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