Any way to stop a remote box gone crazy?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jul 23 14:55:25 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Jul 23), Rus Foster said:
> > cd seems to work (I can cd to directories that I know exist, but
> > get an error if I try to cd to a directory that doesn't), but echo
> > always just returns *
> 
> hmm strange...it could be the shell as echo * on mine does and ls

"echo *" in an empty directory will print "*", since /bin/sh passes
unmatched patterns through.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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