From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 16 19:47:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FBD116A44E for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:47:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from mgedv.at (mail.mgedv.at [195.3.87.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C6343D4C for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:47:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from metis (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mgedv.at (SMTPServer) with ESMTP id 89DF6186864 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 21:47:06 +0200 (MEST) From: "No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" To: Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 21:47:34 +0200 Message-ID: <000301c67921$941b5a20$01010101@avalon.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 thread-index: AcZ5Hskcp+V6VPxlSzKUzeKb6WR2wA== Subject: /bin/sh: wildcard expansion fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nospam@mgedv.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 19:47:38 -0000 i know things like "cat *lst|wc", but i don't want to type them. when i try to use wildcards with "<" or ">" in /bin/sh, it fails: my input (only one file with this name exists in the current dir): wc <*lst /bin/sh's output: cannot open *lst: No such file or directory is there a way to configure /bin/sh for "more/better" expansion? btw, with csh it works fine ;-)