Re: csh * expantion problem

[Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

"Neal R. Dalton" <nrd@XOX.com> writes:
> Under csh (not a link to tcsh), when I do a "echo *", I get the following 
> error:
> 
>   echo: No match.
> 
> It work on other OSs.

I tried

  echo *

in an empty directory on a Solaris, SunOS, and HP/UX -- all the
`csh' and `tcsh' agree -- they are unified in saying:

  echo: No match.

Then, I said

  set nonomatch
  echo *

and, lo and behold, they all echoed a `*' at me.

> The point is this doesn't work.  Is there a working version of csh?

Fix your shell script.

- Hari

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