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  3. December 2009

Re: IFS APIs -- wildcarding?

Hi, James:

Just like in the real Unix, wildcards are supported by "the shell" (Bourne shell, Korn shell, C-shell, BASH, etc.) -- and not by the commands themselves. So, similarly, most of the underlying "APIs" do not directly support wildcards.

Try doing something like this:

STRQSH CMD('rmdir /tmp/*')

or whatever command you are trying to run with a wildcard.

HTH,

Mark S. Waterbury

> James H. H. Lampert wrote:
Is there any way to wildcard a path passed to the rmdir() api? We just saw something that we're unable to explain at present, and that might do it. Or eliminate one whole line of research.

--
JHHL

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