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On Saturday 26 May 2007, reader@×××××××.com wrote about '[gentoo-user] |
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Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview': |
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> Trying to emerge x11-misc/xnview: |
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> | root # emerge -vvp * x11-misc/xnview |
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See that * in your command, that's going to be expanded by your shell to |
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the name of every (non-"hidden") file in the current directory, unless |
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there aren't any. |
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> Apparently something is being passed to emerge somewhere I can't see. |
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It's easy to catch if you actually understand how the POSIX shell works. |
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(Hint: /very/ different from MS Windows's cmd.exe) |
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