From: "Arthur J. O'Dwyer" <ajo AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Bug in command-line globbing
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:36:05 -0500 (EST)
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Arthur J. O'Dwyer wrote:
>
> Yeah, that's what I've done as a stopgap measure.  But it would be
> nice if globbing worked correctly, so one could invoke a program as
>
> % tr -d '*\' *.txt

oops!  Should have been:

% tr -d '*\\' *.txt