Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:35:13 +1000 From: Johny Mattsson <lonewolf-freebsd@earthmagic.org> To: lopisaur@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird / FS behavior Message-ID: <445AB9E1.7090208@earthmagic.org> In-Reply-To: <1146796223.21698.7.camel@hellion.clcw> References: <1146796223.21698.7.camel@hellion.clcw>
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On 05/05/06 12:30, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: > I'm posting this to -questions and -stable, since I'm not sure if it is > a problem or if I'm simply overlooking something. You're overlooking something :) > root@hellion# cat S56/vcs/20060504/*.vcs >> S56/vcs/20060504/cal.vcs The shell creates the "cal.vcs" file before it expands the glob (the *.vcs), and therefore the cat command ends up using cal.vcs as input as well, causing a nasty feedback loop. Cheers, /Johny -- Johny Mattsson - Making IT work ,-. ,-. ,-. When all else fails, http://www.earthmagic.org _.' `-' `-' Murphy's Law still works!
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