This could be more a question of bash fundamentals: By trying to find Muttrc on my HDD I used the locate program.
This was the command I ueed: rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc ... no reaction. Rereading the info gave me: " Patterns can contain shell-style metacharacters: &pi0;*', &pi0;?', and &pi0;[]'. The metacharacters do not treat &pi0;/' or &pi0;.' specially. Therefore, a pattern &pi0;foo*bar' can match a file name that contains &pi0;foo3/bar', and a pattern &pi0;*duck*' can match a file name that contains &pi0;lake/.ducky'. Patterns that contain metacharacters should be quoted to protect them from expansion by the shell. " .....so I tried: rland@MINI:~$ locate '[Mm]uttrc' rland@MINI:~$ locate "[Mm]uttrc" ...nothing. But: rland@MINI:~$ locate &pi0;[Mm]uttrc' > ....put the bash into this ">" - mode and could only be reset by ctrl+C. What has happened here? I would be awfully grateful if someone would help. Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
