On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Alla Bogolubov <abogolub_at_opentext.com> wrote:
> Dan, Built-in ftp clients on most platforms have mget functions
> implemented. You can issue a command 'mget *.txt' and you will receive
> all files that meet the mask. I doubt that *.txt is legal as a file name
> on UNIX. I was unable to create a file with this name on HP-UX or
> Solaris. Also, try 'ls *.txt' or 'vi *.txt' It will list all files with
> *.txt extension and open *.txt files one after another.

Just FYI:

     -bash-3.00$ touch '*.txt'
     -bash-3.00$ touch star.txt
     -bash-3.00$ ls -l
     total 0
     -rw-r--r-- 1 myuser other 0 Mar 28 10:31 *.txt
     -rw-r--r-- 1 myuser other 0 Mar 28 10:31 star.txt
     -bash-3.00$ rm '*.txt'
     -bash-3.00$ ls -l
     total 0
     -rw-r--r-- 1 myuser other 0 Mar 28 10:31 star.txt

The same works on both Solaris 10 and Gentoo Linux. Actually, so does this:

     -bash-3.00$ touch '! @ # $ % ^ & * ( )'
     -bash-3.00$ ls -l
     total 0
     -rw-r--r-- 1 myuser other 0 Mar 28 10:34 ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( )

I'm not saying it's *useful*, but it's not difficult either.

Ralph Mitchell
Received on 2008-03-28