Re: strange problem with cvs remove ...

[Derek R. Price]

bk wrote:

> $bash: rm copy*
> $bash: cvs remove copy*
>
> and i got a very strange error:
> cvs remove: nothing known about `copy*'

This has to do with Bash interpreting wild cards and not CVS.  Since
'copy*' doesn't resolve to an existing file, bash passes the literal to
CVS and cvs doesn't know anything about any files named 'copy*'.

A work around for this is to use:

    $bash: cvs rm -f copy*

instead of:

    $bash: rm copy*
    $bash: cvs remove copy*

Derek
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