crehta@tasu74.UUCP (Ran Ever-Hadani) (12/26/89)
The following problem occurs under a SunOS 4.0.3c, on a SPARCstation 1.
Script started on Tue Dec 26 11:29:04 1989
tasu74 % cat try
#!/users/c764/crehta/perl
while (<*.c>) {
print $_,"\n";
}
tasu74 % ls -F
a.c b.c c.c try* typescript
tasu74 % try
*.c: Ambiguous.
tasu74 % ^D
script done on Tue Dec 26 11:29:39 1989
The same "try" perl script listed a.c, b.c and c.c correctly on
a Sun3 under OS 3.5 .
-- Ran
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Reply-To: crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Disclaimer: The above is to be attributed to me only, not to any organization.
Apology: Bad English. E-mailed spelling and style corrections are welcome.lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (12/28/89)
In article <3142@taux01.UUCP> crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani) writes:
: The following problem occurs under a SunOS 4.0.3c, on a SPARCstation 1.
:
: Script started on Tue Dec 26 11:29:04 1989
: tasu74 % cat try
: #!/users/c764/crehta/perl
:
: while (<*.c>) {
: print $_,"\n";
: }
:
: tasu74 % ls -F
: a.c b.c c.c try* typescript
: tasu74 % try
: *.c: Ambiguous.
: tasu74 % ^D
: script done on Tue Dec 26 11:29:39 1989
:
: The same "try" perl script listed a.c, b.c and c.c correctly on
: a Sun3 under OS 3.5 .
Are you running with a non-standard csh? I can't reproduce it on my
SPARCstation. It acts like *.c is being fed to some csh command that
only expects one argument, such a 'cd'.
In evalargs.xc, you should have some lines that read:
#ifdef CSH
str_nset(tmpstr,cshname,cshlen);
str_cat(tmpstr," -cf 'set nonomatch; glob ");
str_scat(tmpstr,str);
str_cat(tmpstr,"'|");
#else
Check for corruption in your copy. You might do
printf("%s",tmpstr->str_ptr);
to find out what it's trying to execute.
Larry