Re: flexfax: Problem in faxcron: Would someone please check the following fo

[David Birnbaum <davidb@chelsea.net>]

If nothing matches the REGEX, than it will return the REGEX; ie, echo
*.foo will return "*.foo" if nothing in the directory matches.  I suspect
that something is happening here.... 

David.


On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Nico Garcia wrote:

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> On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Seth Chaiklin wrote:
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> > for i in log/[0-9]*; do
> >     if [ -f $i ]; then
> >  
> > As I can imagine, the idea is to file all the files in the log/ directory 
> > that start with something between 0 and 9, and then process them further if 
> > they exist.
> > 
> > But there is one problem.  
> > 
> > If I run a similar version under:  GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1) 
> > 
> > for i in log/[0-9]*; do
> > echo $i
> > done
> 
> Bash does a lot of things in a subtly different fashion,  but this is
> not one of them, according to the test I just ran under bash 1.14.7.
> Something else is going on.
> 
> 			Nico Garcia
> 			Engineer, CIRL 
> 			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
> 			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu
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