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Subject: Re: why is this script failing?
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:37:02AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> >	why is this script not finding them?
> >
> >
> >wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
> 
> why you put \ before *
> 

	to allow the shell to catch various formsof strings with "wav"
	embedded.



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