Re: dbschema -- don't improvise

This was a shell issue, not an Informix issue. The wildcard expansion will always occur before the command executes if you fail to protect them using some form of quotation mark. David Aden wrote: > > 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Prideaux e-mail: alastl@ix.netcom.com Phone: (217)839-2121 Aladdin Steel, Inc. Fax: (217)839-4327 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------