Re: [LI] Filename star

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subba Rao forced the electrons to say:
> 
> perfectly normal. The dreaded meta-character is '*'.
> 
> I don't know how this file got created. What is the best way to trace the
> creation

cd to an empty directory, and give the command 

touch *

and you will find your problem file created.

To disable this, one way (in bash) is to put the line

export allow_null_glob_expansion=true

in your .bash_profile.

Binand

-- 
#include <stdio.h>                                   | Binand Raj S.
char *p = "#include <stdio.h>%cchar *p = %c%s%c;     | This is a self-
int main(){printf(p,10,34,p,34,10);return 0;}%c";    | printing program.
int main(){printf(p,10,34,p,34,10);return 0;}        | Try it!!
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