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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:55:24 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?
Message-ID:  <20030723215524.GF3178@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030723144439.C68935@thor.65535.net>
References:  <1058981768.3f1ec788d0125@webmail.xmission.com> <1058995718.3f1efe06829fa@webmail.xmission.com> <1058996340.3f1f007432094@webmail.xmission.com> <20030723144439.C68935@thor.65535.net>

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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



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