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Re: B19: * expansion problem in bash?
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- Subject: Re: B19: * expansion problem in bash?
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 10 May 1998 11:35:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi Robert,
[...]
>Could it be that bash is truncating the command passed to tar, expanding
>
>tar -cf March-1998.tar * to mean:
^
this is the problem !
it is expanded by the shell
not by tar
tar -cf March-1998.tar
would be correct.
[...]
>
>Any ideas, or is it something I'm missing?
Bye.
Michael.
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