Thanks, that did the trick!


Raymond Shahan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Keven Miller (rtt) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 4:25 PM
To: Ray Shahan
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Got 'dem ole POXIS blues again, mamma

Well, I've got one strike today.
I'll try another swing.....

Ray Shahan wrote:
> This does not work:
> :xeq grep.hpbin.sys '-lin "COMMERCIAL;" /PTC/ASCII/*'
> GREP.HPBIN.SYS: input file "/PTC/ASCII/*": No such file or directory
> 
> This doesn't work either:
> :xeq grep.hpbin.sys '-lin "COMMERCIAL;" /PTC/ASCII/@'
> GREP.HPBIN.SYS: input file "/PTC/ASCII/@": No such file or directory
> 
> But this does:
> :xeq grep.hpbin.sys '-lin "COMMERCIAL;" /PTC/ASCII/CPROG'
> /PTC/ASCII/CPROG

Things to remember:
In posix, the shell does filename expansion for wildcards, ie:
    grep pattern   *
the shell makes it: grep pattern file1 file2 file2 ....


In MPE, the CI does not expand wildcards. So what you pass is what gets
sent.
MPE programs that allow wildcards, have the code in them to expand
filesets.

You might try
:xeq sh.hpbin.sys '-c "grep -lin ""COMMERCIAL;"" /PTC/ASCII/*"'


Keven

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