Re: dbschema -- don't improvise

In article <315EF743.14A9@world.std.com>, David Aden <daden@world.std.com> writes >I recently gave dbschema an illegal option and paid for my improvisation. >I tried running: > > dbschema -t bl_* -d script> >thinking I might luck out and it would give me the schemas of several >different tables that began with "bl_". Instead it went out and emptied >all but 1 or 2 of the *.sql, *.ace, *.per files which matched. The >filenames remained in the directory listing, but they had zero bytes in >them. > >Okay, so I shouldn't have tried something different, but it was still >irritating. > >Sincerely, > >David Aden David, Next time you will remember that Unix will try and expand filenames on the command line before passing them onto the program being run :-) -- ################################## # Neil Stevenson # # DSW Computer Systems Limited # # E-mail : neil@dsw2.demon.co.uk # # Voice : +44-1236-731330 # # Fax : +44-1236-731330 # # Mobile : 0589-585479 # ##################################