A fellow wombat fan! - KB
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, November 7, 2020 3:54 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 13:44:08 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: > > > > Why use "*" (which caused you problems previously) rather than "." > > > > Not clear on the difference. See "not a UNIX professional." Did * cause me > > problems? I thought it was a file named -x that caused the problems. > > Deleting the file named -x sure solved the problem! > > The "*" was a co-conspirator. A contrived example -- in directory: > 597 $ ls -alN # (GNUism) > total 24 > -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm paulgilm 32 Nov 6 15:04 -- > drwxr-xr-x 2 paulgilm paulgilm 4096 Nov 6 15:04 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 paulgilm paulgilm 4096 Nov 6 14:58 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm paulgilm 32 Nov 6 15:04 !wombat > -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm paulgilm 32 Nov 6 15:04 -wombat > -rw-r--r-- 1 paulgilm paulgilm 32 Nov 6 15:04 .wombat > > This may be what you want (the "./" are superfluous): > 598 $ pax -vw . >/dev/null > . > ./-- > ./-wombat > ./!wombat > ./.wombat > pax: ustar vol 1, 5 files, 0 bytes read, 10240 bytes written. > > You may not want this (beware shell expansion!): > 599 $ pax -vw * >/dev/null > !wombat > -wombat > pax: ustar vol 1, 2 files, 0 bytes read, 10240 bytes written. > > > I took care to put the archive outside of the archived path. Not THAT dumb. > > <g> > > Likewise, what happens if you IEBCOPY unload a PDS into one of its own > members? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
