strange ( * vs ./* )

[Erez D]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Matan Ziv-Av <matan at svgalib.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Erez D wrote:
>
>  erez at homer:~$ grep pppd *
>> erez at homer:~$
>>
>> however:
>>
>> erez at homer:~$ grep pppd ./*
>> ./chat.sh:pppd connect 'chat -v -s ABORT ERROR ABORT'
>>
>
> Do you have a file whose name starts with a dash (-)?
>
> that was the issue.
i had a file called '-q' .
renaming it solved it

thanks.

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> Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan at svgalib.org
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