tomm@voodoo.UUCP (Tom Mackey) (05/07/87)
A friend of mine who is not on the net recently ran into a strange situation that he (and I, too) would like some help on. He frequently brings over large numbers of files from a VMS system which have file names followed with a semi-colon and a version number: file1;001 file1;002 file1;003 Now there might also be other files as follows: file1.dat file1 When the cshell is used to "list all files starting with file1;", like so: ls file1\;* it returns "No Match". Yet the same command under the Bourne shell works as expected. What am I missing? How do you do the task using the cshell? Thanks for any light you may shed on this mystery. -- Tom Mackey (206) 342-1442 (wk) Boeing Computer Services ....uw-beaver!ssc-vax!voodoo!tomm M/S 03-73, P.O. Box 24346, Seattle, WA 98124-0346
devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine) (05/15/87)
In article <326@voodoo.UUCP>, tomm@voodoo.UUCP (Tom Mackey) writes: > When the cshell is used to "list all files starting with file1;", like so: > > ls file1\;* > it returns "No Match". > > Yet the same command under the Bourne shell works as expected. What am I > missing? How do you do the task using the cshell? Hi Tom, Here is a way to get around the interpretation of ';' by Csh: % ls file1`echo ';'`* # not as elegant as Bourne/Korn shell Bob
devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine) (05/19/87)
> % ls file1`echo ';'`* # not as elegant as Bourne/Korn shell
After thinking a bit more, a better way to do it is:
% set S = ';'
% ls file1$S* # works because the '*' stops interpretation of $S
Bob
awhite%mycroft@adm.UUCP (05/21/87)
How about: ls "file1;"* ? ------------------------------------------------------------ Arden White o Gould CSD o Urbana, IL awhite@gswd-vms.arpa ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!awhite ------------------------------------------------------------
brian@scgvaxd.UUCP (05/22/87)
In article <326@voodoo.UUCP> tomm@voodoo.UUCP (Tom Mackey) writes: >When the cshell is used to "list all files starting with file1;", like so: > >ls file1\;* > >it returns "No Match". Um, what version of Unix/csh are you running? On 4.[23]bsd systems at least, this works just fine. So does ls file1';'* and ls file1";"* --Brian {seismo,allegra,ihnp4}!scgvaxd!brian