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Old 01-13-2002
Data Wildcards In UNIX

on my SCO UNIX wild cards are not displaying wanted result.
Why like that . I think that i was not using proper command .

what are there . how can i use the wildcards in UNIX.
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Old 01-13-2002
To answer your question you'll need to tell us what you are trying to do...in what situation or with which command are you trying to use wildcards.

i.e are you trying to list files, or is it in a script...etc.

Please provide more info...Smilie
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Old 01-14-2002
ls s*

when i try to search files which first character start's with S char.

I giving worng outout why like that.

how to use wildcards in SCOUNIX.
# 4  
Old 01-14-2002
Re: ls s*

the syntax "ls s*" looks alright, and i think it is recognised by all shells across unix families. the unexpected output may be due to the existence of subdirectory whose name begins with an "s" also. for example, in the current directory i have files: sfile1, sfile2 and sdir1 (sdir1 is a subdirectory contains sfile3 and xfile4. when i issue "ls s*" the output will be:

sfile1 sfile2

sdir1:
sfile3 xfile4

this is just my humble guess.
Smilie
# 5  
Old 01-14-2002
Check your CAPS (Case Sensitivity), Also, as kanang said, that could be another problem, so you could use:
Code:
ls -d S*

instead.
shaik786
# 6  
Old 01-14-2002
Wildcarding is sometimes also called globbing. And shells have ways to turn it off. We need to know which shell you are using to tell you how to check and correct this. But with ksh there is an option called "noglob" and you want this option off. I find the syntax for this to be counterintuitive:

set -o | grep noglob # check status of noglob
set -o noglob # Turn noglob on, no wildcards
set +o noglob # Turn noglob off, wildcards work
# 7  
Old 04-04-2002
Data More on wildcards - help?

Greetings Peeps Smilie

I'm sure there was a wildcard syntax, being as *nix tends to be case-sensitive when matching filenames, that enabled the following to be matched

*.mp3 *.MP3 *.Mp3 and *.mP3

using a single, 'wildcard' pattern-match something like:

ls *.[Mm][Pp]3

... obviously this doesn't work (else I wouldn't be posing the question) - where is my syntax wrong?

Smilie LJS Smilie
 
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