Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:24:55 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Nejc =?utf-8?q?=C5=A0koberne?= <nejc@skoberne.net> Subject: Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0802291321140.4227@tx.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <200802291410.45509.josh@tcbug.org> References: <20080228182457.0f773080.bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> <200802291324.41438.josh@tcbug.org> <47C85417.7020308@skoberne.net> <200802291410.45509.josh@tcbug.org>
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> It's also a shell meta-character in the shells I'm familiar with, and > gets expanded long before grep would ever see it unless you escape it. > Hence the question about what shell the poster is using.... sh, bash, or ksh just pass it a long literally if not matched tcsh, csh complain if not match. The error message says the command name -- but that is bogus -- as the command is never even ran. Really it is the shell.
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