st: re:shell

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Correct, I was not trying do-file code, in which (interactive) case /* 
means naught. But this DOES work in do-file code;

-- start do file --
cd /applications/stata/ado/base
local c = c(alpha)

foreach w of local c {
	local arg "`w'/*.ado"
	di "`arg'"
	ls `arg'
    }
-- end do file --

Quoting the expression containing the forward slash protects it from 
being interpreted as a comment, and it will work in a shell command.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

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