Hello There,

In an attempt update the Elist I tried using the command line.

./bbbs btxt2bbs Netmail /home/bbbs/elist-upd/<Filename> /F Jeff Smith /T Echolist /S !*1:1/21 MOD UPD

The problem seems to be the "!*" which is supposed to tell BBBS to send the message as Crash/Direct. The "!*" works fine if the netmail is written manually
but not when used in a command line.

Jeff

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Hi Jeff,

On 2018-02-16 23:31:54, you wrote to All:

In an attempt update the Elist I tried using the command line.

./bbbs btxt2bbs Netmail /home/bbbs/elist-upd/<Filename> /F Jeff Smith /T Echolist /S !*1:1/21 MOD UPD

The problem seems to be the "!*" which is supposed to tell BBBS to send

the

message as Crash/Direct. The "!*" works fine if the netmail is written manually but not when used in a command line.

It's linux. So a * inside an option is expanded to matching filenames by the shell. So write it inside single quotes like: '!*1:1/21' and you ar probably ok...

Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred,

The problem seems to be the "!*" which is supposed to tell BBBS to send the >> message as Crash/Direct. The "!*" works fine if the netmail is written
manually but not when used in a command line.

It's linux. So a * inside an option is expanded to matching filenames by the shell. So write it inside single quotes like: '!*1:1/21' and you ar probably ok...

Yeah, in the back of my mind I was thinking that either the "!" or the "*" were
being used or acted upon beyond what was intended. Thanks for the confirmation of what I had suspected.


Jeff


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