Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 01:25:34 -0600 From: Bob Giesen <BobGiesen@earthlink.net> To: stealth215@mediaone.net, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> Cc: questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: problem with wild card Message-ID: <E16jxj0-0004wx-00@harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <3C8A7038.7040106@mediaone.net> References: <3C8995BD.6070009@mediaone.net> <20020309174938.GH14049@roman.mobil.cz> <3C8A7038.7040106@mediaone.net>
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On Saturday 09 March 2002 02:27 pm, David Loszewski wrote:
> Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >>Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 23:55:25 -0500
> >>From: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>
> >>To: questions <questions@freebsd.org>
> >>Subject: problem with wild card
> >>
> >>whenever I do a 'cp * /usr' it or any command followed by a wild
> >> card character it comes up saying 'No match.' Ideas??
> >
> > are there any files in the directory?
>
> yes there are
>
> Dave
I'm guessing that your files (in the directory where you get "No
match.") all begin with a dot ("."). An asterisk, alone, will not
match these files; you have to precede it with a dot. So, if you
really want to copy everything in your PWD (present working
directory) to /usr, try this:
cp .* * /usr
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