Dave,

On 2016-10-02 23:10, Dave Mitchell wrote:
On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 09:15:36PM +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
On F25 x86_64 as user "fedora" with default environment I get:

grep Cock application.html.erb

Provider for the National Disability Insurance Trial Site in Kwinana/
Cockburn</a>

grep Cock *

  grep: *: No such file or directory

grep Cock a*

  grep: a*: No such file or directory

grep Cock *erb

  grep: *erb: No such file or directory

The same commands for root work as expected . . but I cannot see anything in .bash[rc | _profile] that would make a difference - I can send the diffs if
people think I am missing something . .

This isn't an issue with grep, but with your shell not expanding wildcards.
If
    grep Cock *

gives you

    grep: *: No such file or directory

then I'd expect

    echo *

to give you

    *

If indeed the shell isn't expanding wildcards (but does for root), then
I'd suspect the directory isn't readable by the current user (i.e. it's
--x or -wx rather than r-x or rwx).


Well I went back to have a look and the directory is indeed owned by Fedora:

  drwxr-sr-x 2 fedora fedora 4096 Oct  2 21:00 .

but now all the greps work as expected! I'm not sure what is going on - on that remote VM I always log in as root via SSL and use:

  su - fedora

to do things - but now everything is behaving properly . . I would prefer a problem still needing to be resolved than having no problem but not understanding what the temporary problem was . .

Thanks anyway,

Phil.

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Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  p...@pricom.com.au
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