Re: listing all devs

["Gisle Vanem" <giva () bgnett no>]

"David Young" <dyoung () pobox com> said:
>   ? is a wildcard in most UNIX shells. Operators prefer not to have to
>   escape characters in routine commands.

It's a wildcard in Windows/OS too? It doesn't stop us from using 
it for other things than filespecs. Do toy mean the shell or crt will
glob an arg like "file://?"

>   What if a capture file contains the character '?' ?

Doesn't matter if readdir() will find it and the file is longer than "?".
Is it even possible to name a file "?". ?

>   To list capture files in a directory, why not use the appropriate
>   combination of ls, find, and file (or whichever the equivalent is in
>   Windows), instead of tcpdump?

It would not be clean from a bunch of '*.cap', '*.dump', '*.trace'
etc. files which are libpcap capture files. My idea was to open
all files in a dir and look for the tcpdump signature.

--gv


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