Eric J. Roode on 5 Nov 2005 23:03:34 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] bash script help 

Art Alexion wrote:

Thanks, Paul.  Worked fine.  Now I have to figure out *why* it worked,
that is, why it knew that {*} was the second argument, and why I needed
to assign the variable PREFIX to ${1}.



Probably you had "set -f" in effect in your shell; that prevents wildcard expansion.
Just a guess.

Eric

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