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Re: modconf



On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:46:58PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:45:16AM -0700, dt wrote:
> > Hello,I've just compiled a custom kernel (installed new HD) and i have a
> > mystery with modprobe which tells me:
> > 
> > modprobe *
> > modprobe: Can't locate module vmlinuz.old
> > 
> > modprobe -l *
> > [no results]
> 
> modprobe --help says
> wildcard patterns must be escaped
> so
> modprobe -l \*
> (BTW: Does anybody know why?)

Because otherwise the shell expands * to the list of files in your
current directory.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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