RE: ATTRIB (Using chmod instead)

On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 21:12, Joe Pluta wrote:
> > From: Martin Rowe
> >
> > Odd - it worked for me (tm)
>
> Do you consider creating a file with an asterisk in the name as "working"?
> I'm honestly curious.  I'm not a Unix savant, so I don't know whether that's
> "good" behavior or "bad" behavior.  In any case, I'm using bash 1.14,
> fileutils 4.0, and it says "no match".

Hi Joe

By worked, I meant that the command created an empty file, rather than
fail. Whether that's good behaviour or not I couldn't say ;-) Being able
to escape (precede with a backslash \ ) troublesome characters like *
and ? does help though (haven't tried this in QShell yet). As far as bad
names on the IFS go, I managed to end up with a file with a leading
x'22' (that's right - highlight in EBCDIC) which even WRKLNK wouldn't
remove. I think it ignored the leading 'space' as it saw it and said the
file didn't exist. Windows couldn't touch (no pun intended) it either.
In the end I had to write a program to do the RMVLNK, so it could
include the x'22'.

Regards, Martin
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