Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:19:00 -0800 From: Carl <k0802647@telus.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: wildcards don't work in sh shell for FAT32 filesystem Message-ID: <49910E44.9020904@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <49067148.6080307@telus.net> References: <49067148.6080307@telus.net>
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Why do pathnames containing a wildcard work in the tcsh shell regardless
of the target filesystem, but do not work in the sh shell if the target
filesystem is FAT32?
The following sequence begins in the tcsh shell by mounting a FAT32
partition from a USB thumb drive. /tmp is in a UFS2 partition. There are
no files with "fish" in their names in either location. This is
happening in FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Why do the last four commands not have
the same result?
tcsh# mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
tcsh# rm -f /tmp/fish*
rm: No match.
tcsh# rm -f /tmp/*fish
rm: No match.
tcsh# rm -f /mnt/fish*
rm: No match.
tcsh# rm -f /mnt/*fish
rm: No match.
tcsh# sh
sh# rm -f /tmp/fish*
sh# rm -f /tmp/*fish
sh# rm -f /mnt/fish*
rm: /mnt/fish*: Invalid argument
sh# rm -f /mnt/*fish
rm: /mnt/*fish: Invalid argument
FWIW, the context of this discovery was trying to use the grub-install
script from the GRUB port to install its boot loader on a FAT32 thumb
drive. The script aborts when it attempts something like "rm -f
/mnt/boot/grub/*stage1_5"
Carl / K0802647
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