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Re: bug in zctl or libss

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derrick J. Brashear)
Fri Apr 19 11:08:49 1996

Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:08:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Derrick J. Brashear" <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>
Reply-To: "Derrick J. Brashear" <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199604182155.RAA00856@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu>

>  > 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" \*

I copied/pasted wrong:
4:36pm:shadow@johnstown:finger:497> zctl sub message "foo bar" \*
Usage: sub class instance [*]

My typing may suck, but there really is a bug:-)


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