WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD

[SEan Strand]

Just wondering if you have the original FreeBSD disks, in the original
packing that being dated for example FreeBSD 2.2.5 November 1997,

Try to have a dig-out and a good look?
Rgds SEanS





On 09/03/2008, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>   > > It's also a shell meta-character in the shells I'm familiar with, and
>   > > gets expanded long before grep would ever see it unless you escape it.
>   > > Hence the question about what shell the poster is using....
>   >
>   > sh, bash, or ksh just pass it a long literally if not matched
>   >
>   > tcsh, csh complain if not match. The error message says the command name
>   > -- but that is bogus -- as the command is never even ran. Really it is the
>   > shell.
>
>  Just for completeness:  zsh is configurable in that regard.
>  When the option "nomatch" is set (the default), it behaves
>  like csh, otherwise it behaves like sh.  (There are many
>  more options that configure the globbing behaviour.)
>
>  Personally I prefer the default behaviour, i.e. giving an
>  error when there is no match.  Using unquoted wildcards
>  and relying on the fact that there is no match can be very
>  dangerous.
>
>  I also often make use of the feature that zsh expands glob
>  expressions when you press tab (or it beeps at you if
>  there is no match).  So you can see exactly what files
>  are affected by a command _before_ pressing Enter.  That
>  feature has saved me more than once.
>
>  Just my 2 cents.
>
>  Best regards
>    Oliver
>
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