Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:35:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: why is this script failing? Message-ID: <20080715183500.GA76088@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20080715073651.P1638@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20080714201241.GA22443@thought.org> <20080715073651.P1638@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:37:02AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > why is this script not finding them?
> >
> >
> >wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
>
> why you put \ before *
>
to allow the shell to catch various formsof strings with "wav"
embedded.
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