Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 22:45:22 -0400 From: Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner <lopisaur@gmail.com> To: Johny Mattsson <lonewolf-freebsd@earthmagic.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird / FS behavior Message-ID: <1146797122.21698.10.camel@hellion.clcw> In-Reply-To: <445AB9E1.7090208@earthmagic.org> References: <1146796223.21698.7.camel@hellion.clcw> <445AB9E1.7090208@earthmagic.org>
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Whoops... <insert embarrassed smiley here>. I just got it. That's what happens when you start pounding away on the keybaord without thinking about it first. Thanks for the prompt response, guys. At least we all got a laugh out of it (at least I did :-)). On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 12:35 +1000, Johny Mattsson wrote: > On 05/05/06 12:30, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: > > I'm posting this to -questions and -stable, since I'm not sure if it is > > a problem or if I'm simply overlooking something. > > You're overlooking something :) > > > > root@hellion# cat S56/vcs/20060504/*.vcs >> S56/vcs/20060504/cal.vcs > > The shell creates the "cal.vcs" file before it expands the glob (the > *.vcs), and therefore the cat command ends up using cal.vcs as input as > well, causing a nasty feedback loop. > > Cheers, > /Johny -- Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner lopisaur@gmail.com lopisaur@acelerate.com (+591-705)98290 http://lopisaur.googlepages.com
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