This one time, at band camp, Andy Saxena said: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:15:19PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > > This could be more a question of bash fundamentals: > > > > By trying to find Muttrc on my HDD I used the locate > > program. > > > > This was the command I ueed: > > > > rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc > > ... no reaction. > > > > Rereading the info gave me: > > " > > Patterns can contain shell-style metacharacters: > > &pi0;*', &pi0;?', and &pi0;[]'. The metacharacters do not treat > > &pi0;/' > > or &pi0;.' specially. Therefore, a pattern &pi0;foo*bar' can > > match a file name that contains &pi0;foo3/bar', and a pattern > > &pi0;*duck*' can match a file name that contains > > &pi0;lake/.ducky'. Patterns that contain metacharacters > > should be quoted to protect them from expansion by the > > shell. > > " > > .....so I tried: > > > > rland@MINI:~$ locate '[Mm]uttrc' > > rland@MINI:~$ locate "[Mm]uttrc" > > ...nothing. > > > > But: > > rland@MINI:~$ locate &pi0;[Mm]uttrc' > > > > > Is it just me or are others seeing weird characters in this email too? I > am a lot of "&pi0" and also "|". > > The following is my locale setting if this has anything to do with this. > > $ locale > LANG=en_US > LC_CTYPE="en_US" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US" > LC_TIME="en_US" > LC_COLLATE=C > LC_MONETARY="en_US" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US" > LC_PAPER="en_US" > LC_NAME="en_US" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" > LC_ALL= > > -Andy Me too - some locales problem, probably. "&pi0" is "`" (backtick, in case it doesn't come across from me, either). Not sure about the pipe showing up. Steve -- QOTD: "I tried buying a goat instead of a lawn tractor; had to return it though. Couldn't figure out a way to connect the snow blower."
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