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Re: Wildcards in Obey files

From "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+15278@Torrens.org.uk>
Subject Re: Wildcards in Obey files
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Date 2011-10-31 16:17 +0000
Message-ID <522ae0640bnews*@Torrens.org.uk> (permalink)
References <5227152c09news*@Torrens.org.uk> <4ea6472e$0$30778$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr>
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In article <4ea6472e$0$30778$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr>,
   Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24/10/2011 09:29, Richard Torrens (News) wrote:

> > Copy "logs-<Transient$TodayLeaf>"
> > "<Transient$TodayDir>.Logs-<Transient$TodayLeaf>" R D
> [...]
> > So is there a way of deleting a wildcarded directory from an obey file?

> I see no * or # in the line quoted. Wildcards != system variables. ;-)

> What I would wonder is if the quotes are necessary, and if they change 
> behaviour (i.e. <Transient$TodayLeaf> is passed literally instead of 
> being expanded due to it being in quotes).

Sorry for using "wildcard" in subject.

I have tried all variants on this that I can think of!

It seems a line passed from a task windiw is simply treated differently to
the same line on an Obey file.

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Wildcards in Obey files "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+15271@Torrens.org.uk> - 2011-10-24 08:29 +0100
  Re: Wildcards in Obey files Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-10-24 11:33 +0100
    Re: Wildcards in Obey files "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+15278@Torrens.org.uk> - 2011-10-31 16:14 +0000
  Re: Wildcards in Obey files Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-25 07:20 +0200
    Re: Wildcards in Obey files "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+15278@Torrens.org.uk> - 2011-10-31 16:17 +0000
      Re: Wildcards in Obey files Ian Hamilton <Ian.Hamilton@AAUG.net> - 2011-10-31 09:00 +0000
      Re: Wildcards in Obey files Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-10-31 15:04 +0100
      Re: Wildcards in Obey files Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-05 15:17 +1300
        Re: Wildcards in Obey files druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-11-05 16:06 +0000
          Re: Wildcards in Obey files Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2011-11-06 16:27 +1300
  Re: Wildcards in Obey files Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2011-11-01 23:32 +0000

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