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From: chris@boulder.UUCP (Chris Sterritt)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Yet another clever system message
Message-ID: <140@boulder.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 14:13:18 EST
Article-I.D.: boulder.140
Posted: Wed Feb  8 14:13:18 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 08:55:02 EST
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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On un*x, the shell tries to expand any wildcards before it finds
a command.  The question mark is the single character wildcard,
and so bl?ch matches blech, bloch, etc.  But if there isn't anything
there, it complains, as in:

% light?
light: no match.

	--chris s.
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