Norvell Spearman <norvell_at_houseofspearman.org> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:30:45PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
> > Norvell Spearman <norvell_at_houseofspearman.org> writes:
> > > fvwm-2.5.4
> > >
> > > I have the following line in a configuration file
> > >
> > > PipeRead 'for i in Menu/*.men; do echo read $i; done'
> >
> > The for i in part is relative to $HOME.
> > The fvwm read command reads in $HOME/.fvwm.
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but I still don't quite understand. How is the
> ``for i in'' part relative to $HOME when the error message says:
>
> [FVWM][Read]: <<ERROR>> file 'Menu/*.men' not found in \
> /home/norvell/.fvwm or /usr/share/fvwm
You still see the "*" in the file name because the shell didn't
expand Menu/*.man since no file matched.
Go to $HOME/.fvwm and type in:
ls 'Menu/*.man'
I hope I'm explaining this right, its getting late.
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Dan Espen E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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Received on Tue Nov 19 2002 - 22:45:14 GMT