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From: "mike parks" <mwparks AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Fw: problem with ls and similar commands in tcsh
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:07:23 -0500
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Igor,

> On the tcsh command line, type 'ls temp*' (no Enter), then press Ctrl-X
> and then press '*'.  This should expand to the three filenames below.  If
> it instead expands to 'temp\*', you probably have noglob set

> Another way of checking whether noglob is set is 'set | grep noglob' at
> the tcsh prompt.

    'ls temp* Ctrl-X *' gets expanded to
        temp/*

    i have not (yet) set up any .[c,t]shrc files yet.

> If noglob is set, try 'unset'ting it and executing 'ls temp*' again.  If
> that makes it work, you have to track down which startup script sets
> noglob (probably ~/.tcshrc, ~/.cshrc or /etc/csh.cshrc).  Try starting
> tcsh with the '-f' option to not execute those scripts, and see if it
> fixes the problem.  You will then want to edit the offending script and
> comment out the 'set noglob' line.

    'unset noglob' fixed the problem.

many thanks Igor!
mike

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