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Re: bug in zctl or libss

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Apr 18 17:55:43 1996

Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:55:37 -0400
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
To: "Derrick J. Brashear" <shadow+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: bug-zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[769] in Zephyr_Bugs"

> 11:44am:shadow@johnstown:023:162> zctl sub message "foo bar" *
> Usage: sub class instance [*]

Umm.. the * is being used by the shell to mean "all files in this
directory", so zctl is seeing 'sub message "foo bar" file1 [file2 ...]'
which is, of course, wrong.  Try this:

11:44am:shadow@johnstown:023:162> zctl sub message "foo bar" \*

-derek

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