From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: B19: * expansion problem in bash?
10 May 1998 08:11:06 -0700
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Hi Robert,

[...]
>Could it be that bash is truncating the command passed to tar, expanding
>
>tar -cf March-1998.tar * to mean:
                        ^
                        this is the problem !
                        it is expanded by the shell
                        not by tar

tar -cf March-1998.tar

would be correct.

[...]
>
>Any ideas, or is it something I'm missing?

Bye.
Michael.
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