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    why doesn't curl work in tcsh?

    When I try to use curl to get a series of files from a webserver with a command like this.. curl -O http://someserver.com/file[01-10].txt I get an error message "no match" I know that it's got to do with the tcsh shell trying to intrepret the [], because the command works fine if I use...
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    aliases.db won't update??

    I've been trying to add some aliases to sendmail without any success. I update the /etc/mail/aliases file, then use the newaliases command to update aliases.db. newaliases doesn't report any error, but the modification date of the aliases.db file doesn't change, and the aliases aren't...
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    crontab's output question

    The output of root's cron jobs (/etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly) all produce two e-mails to the root account. One is the output I expect, but the other is: zsh: command not found: root I haven't modified the default crontab supplied with OS X, other than to change the times when...
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    use of "ff" and "files" in alias

    The default alias file in MacOSX contains the following: ff find . -name !:1 -print files find !:1 -type f -print Could one of you unix guys explain what each of these commands do? I've looked at 'find' in the man pages, but I'm still mystified by the '!:1'. Thanks!
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