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vinaytp

11-25-2009 11:20 PM

strange output of regex

Hi all...

Code:

[vinay@TEG test]$ echo grapes>"text sample2"

[vinay@TEG test]$ cat "`ls text*le2`"

grapes

[vinay@TEG test]$ cat "`ls text*2`"

cat: text2

text sample2: No such file or directory

Here I feel 3rd command should display contents of file "text sample2"...The output is really looking strange...How is this working ?

vinaytp

11-25-2009 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vinaytp (Post 3770000)

Hi all...

Code:

[vinay@TEG test]$ echo grapes>"text sample2"

[vinay@TEG test]$ cat "`ls text*le2`"

grapes

[vinay@TEG test]$ cat "`ls text*2`"

cat: text2

text sample2: No such file or directory

Here I feel 3rd command should display contents of file "text sample2"...The output is really looking strange...How is this working ?

I got the concept.....
shell is giving the cat command a single parameter text2..

Web31337

11-25-2009 11:29 PM

Code:

web31337@srvr:/tmp$ echo grapes>"text sample2"

web31337@srvr:/tmp$ cat "`ls text*le2`"

grapes

web31337@srvr:/tmp$ cat "`ls text*2`"

grapes

it works fine for me. works on debian lenny (2.6) and even on my freebsd vds.
i simply copypasted these commands from your code.

vinaytp

11-26-2009 04:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Web31337 (Post 3770007)

Code:

web31337@srvr:/tmp$ echo grapes>"text sample2"

web31337@srvr:/tmp$ cat "`ls text*le2`"

grapes

web31337@srvr:/tmp$ cat "`ls text*2`"

grapes

it works fine for me. works on debian lenny (2.6) and even on my freebsd vds.
i simply copypasted these commands from your code.

Hi web31337...

Code:

touch text2

Can you pls now execute those commands....

Web31337

11-26-2009 04:54 AM

mhm i get it.
cat text*2 is what you need.

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