Re: a small SBCL question

d...@xxxxxxx wrote:
I tried the example above, with a wildcard, i.e. "/tmp/*.lisp" instead
of "/tmp/a.lisp",
and no files were found, and there are files matching the pattern.

Could someone explain why?

Because on UNIX traditionally wildcards are expanded by your shell, not
by, say, /bin/ls -- unlike MS-DOS, BTW. :) There are exceptions, of
course (scp knows about them, find...), but not ls.

You can try using "/bin/sh" for the command, (list "/bin/ls"
"/tmp/*.lisp") for its arguments.

Many thanks!

Welcome!

Cheers,
David

Paul B.

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