[9331] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.3P: Possible tcsh bug on DECstation 5000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid M. Pinchback)
Thu May 14 15:25:34 1992
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 14 May 92 15:25:23 EDT
From: Reid M. Pinchback <reidmp@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: whirlwind
Type and version: R2000a??? 7.3P
Display type: PMAG-DV
(actually, the type is a DECstation 5000 model 25, with a colour monitor)
What were you trying to do?
In executing the following:
rm -f gb/*.tmp > /dev/null
I get the response:
No match.
What's wrong:
Although the directory in question is empty, I shouldn't be
getting any response back. The output should be silent. I
tried using variants like:
rm -f gb/*.tmp 1> /dev/null
and:
rm -f gb/*.tmp 2> /dev/null
The output is silent when using Bourne shell, but not when using
the default shell (which I am pretty sure is tcsh... my default
shell is /bin/csh).
What should have happened:
The output should be silent. This makes for cleaner, less
confusing scripts that are going to be run by naive users.
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