Re: listing all devs

[David Young <dyoung () pobox com>]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:18:26PM +0200, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> "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://?"

  The shell globs.

> >   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 "?". ?

  I don't understand what you are saying here ...

> >   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.

  ... or here.

Dave

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