OT: Shell Script

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Up to recently I'd do a sync;sync;shutdown [parameters]...

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 08/02/06, Tim Sailer <sailer at bnl.gov> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:08:19PM +0100, Glenn Steen wrote:
>>     
>>> On 07/02/06, Tim Sailer <sailer at bnl.gov> wrote:
>>> (snip)
>>>       
>>>> for file in `echo *`
>>>>         
>>> (snip)
>>> Tim, just curious... Why do you go the "long route around" backticks
>>> and an echo, just to use the same shell "wildcarding" mechanism as a
>>> single "*" would give you?
>>> That cannot be necessary... Just use an * and you'll be fine... As in
>>> ...
>>> for file in *
>>> do
>>>       
>> Well, yes, for the most part. I guess I'm just showing my age, unix-wise.
>> Back in the good old days with the standard Bourne shell, globbing didn't
>> quite work like the present.
>>     
> In the far reaches of my memory, I do beleive you might be right:-).
> Not so any more though;).
>
>   
>> Plus, * by itself means a lot of things to
>> the shells.
>>     
> Not really;).
>
>   
>> Evaling the results of the 'echo -n' and '-n' by itself may
>> have different results, if a file was created with the name '-n'.
>>     
> Again, not really, at least not any more... If you're after
> "pathifying" them, using ./* or a find would do the trick (only real
> way of defeating "option-like" filenames)... Otherwise the -n filename
> would be lost to the echo.
>
>   
>> Habit, I guess. After all these years, that sequence just flows off
>> my fingertips...
>>     
>
> I'm sure I do my share of "old crud typing" too... For years (hm, more
> like "decade(s)", come to think of it) I was guilty of "the tripple
> sync before shutdown" on systems that simply didn't need them...:-)
>
> Thanks for the answer.
> --
> -- Glenn
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>   

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Alex Neuman van der Hans
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