On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > No Toby; the shell expands the file names. > assume we have foo.zip and bar.zip in the current directory; > unzip *.zip will pass the command line > unzip bar.zip foo.zip > and since unzip can't find foo.zip in bar.zip it failes. > You need to do > unzip \*.zip > or > unzip "*.zip" > or anything else thaat will let the wildcards past the shell. Arg, forgot that, sorry. Will command substitution work? Like: unzip `ls -l *.zip` or pipes ls |grep zip |unzip or even: ls *.zip | unzip > For an example of shell wildcard expantion try > echo * > in a directory; poor-man's ls. Haha yes, very poor, it doesn't even wrap gracefully! Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
