On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:25:05 -0700, Chip Camden <[email protected]> wrote: > As others have mentioned, you need to quote or escape the * in the > command line: > > admin "cell*"
The problem, for explaination purposes, is that the shell you enter the command will already expand cell* to cell_A, cell_B and so on. This means that inside your script $1 will be assigned the first matching entry, $2 would be the second one, $3 a third one and so on. To avoid this, you need to directly communicate the * to your script's parameter $1, which is done by escaping or quoting it. In this case, $1 will contain a literal * inside the script. In most cases when scripting, it's useful not to assume such a complicated command line processing. You better let the shell do the expansion of *, so your script gets a lot of parameters, one for each match, and you then continue to process them. Another option is to just provide a prefix pattern to your script, and let IT then add the * to expand it internally within the script (i. e. by the shell that processes the script). So you won't have to give a * at the command line of the calling dialog shell. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
