ITEM: BT8889L

sysback is not listing all the files

Question:

Env:  
       RISC J40  
       AIX 4.1.4
       sysback 3.3.3.6

Desc:  
  Customer is trying to restore some files from a full
  system backup.  They choose to list files,  then they 
  enter the search pattern "/u2/u/scr*".  This produces 
  a list of about 65 files.  But there appears to be 3 
  files missing.

  If those 3 files exist on the system then they show up 
  on the file list.

Action:  
  if customer enters the following search string
  /u2/u/stacar/DATA/SCRF*.txt
  then all SCRF files are listed except the 3 in question.

  If the customer enters the following search string
  /u2/u/stacar/DATA/SCRF
  then all SCRF files are listed including the 3 in 
  question.

Response:

  Determined the problem is that the shell is trying to 
  expand on the wildcard character.  It will traverse 
  the path specified and it passes to sysback the first 
  match of characters.  If nothing is
  found to match then the string entered is passes 
  "as is" to sysback to be used as the search string.  
  Sysback is not taking into account that shell is 
  expanding the search pattern.
  The work around is to place quotes around the search 
  string


Fix this in sysback 3.3.3.13 but note that there is now 
the restriction that only one search parameter may be 
entered.

Next action:
  Closing with customer approval



Support Line: sysback is not listing all the files  ITEM: BT8889L

Dated: February 1997 Category: N/A

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