An odd difference between 'cat file' - (nf)

Sun Apr 15 22:05:49 AEST 1984

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fortune!rpw3    Apr 15 03:30:00 1984

This IS odd. I just tried it on 4.1bsd, and the same thing: "cannot open".
I also am a lazy typist, and when I know that a file exists, and there is
a unique path to it, I do as you do, for example:

	fi*/ne*/art*/*info == file/net/articles/terminfo

'csh' (4.1bsd) ALLOWS "foo <fi*/ne*/art*/*info", 'sh' (4.1) doesn't. (If the
expansion is not unique, 'csh' says: "Ambiguous". I can dig it. It would be
asking a bit much for it to turn "foo <bar*" into "cat bar* | foo".  ;-} )

This is weird since (as you note) 'sh' DOES allow "cd fi*/ne*/art*".
Therefore it MUST have a "ExpandUnique" (or some such) in it somewhere...

Rob Warnock

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