From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 3 10:58:14 2003 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 13F8D37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:58:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.65535.net (thor.65535.net [65.214.160.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6353243FAF for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:58:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rghf@fsck.me.uk) Received: from localhost (thor [65.214.160.96]) by thor.65535.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h23Iv1V5066335; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:57:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rghf@fsck.me.uk) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:57:01 -0800 (PST) From: Rus Foster X-X-Sender: rghf@thor.65535.net To: abc@dialups-247.anchorage.mtaonline.net Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: cd * In-Reply-To: <200302280342.h1S3glH0029968@en26.dialups-247.anchorage.mtaonline.net> Message-ID: <20030303105508.D61837@thor.65535.net> References: <200302280342.h1S3glH0029968@en26.dialups-247.anchorage.mtaonline.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 abc@dialups-247.anchorage.mtaonline.net wrote: > FBSD-4.7R > > on other BSD's, and with ftp(1), 'cd x*' will cd > to the 1st match. FBSD used to work this way > as well a few minor versions ago. > > these days it crashes with 'too many arguments' > if there is more than one match. i 'object' > to this behavior :) i would like to report > it as a bug ... is there a good reason for > it's current behavior? > Its not FBSD rather than the shell expansion. Depending on the shell it will act in different ways. So best advice would be either hack the shell source code or find a shell with different behaviour just my $0.02 Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: support@65535.net "More bits for your bite" Email - Web Space - Custom Solutions - Shell Accounts Please respect RFC1855 and don't top post To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message