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st: RE: strange wildcard action


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: strange wildcard action
Date   Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:13:30 -0000

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
FEIVESON, ALAN H. 
 
> Hello - In Stata 7, I tried to use the "dir" command with various
> combinations of letters - can someone please explain these results?
> 
> Does this also happen in Stata 8?
> 
> . dir sat*
>    1.4k   8/03/99  8:40  satish.ado        
>    4.1k   6/27/97  7:29  satish.dta        
>   40.1k   8/20/01 15:21  satish1_aug01.dta 
>    0.4k   8/05/99 15:17  satish2.do        
>   40.1k   8/21/01 11:41  satish2_aug01.dta 
>   40.1k   8/21/01 14:24  satish3_aug01.dta 
>   40.1k   8/24/01 11:48  satish4_aug01.dta 
>   57.6k   8/23/01 15:28  satish5_aug01.dta 
>   57.6k   8/24/01  9:23  satish6_aug01.dta 
>   57.6k   8/24/01 11:44  satish7_aug01.dta 
>   57.6k   8/24/01 14:26  satish8_aug01.dta 
>    4.6k   9/13/00  7:54  satish_091300.dta 
>  115.1k   8/21/01 14:24  satish_aug01.dta  
>    2.6k  12/17/02  7:17  satish_coll_121602.dta
>    5.4k  12/17/02  7:20  satish_long_121602.dta
>    0.1k   8/24/01 14:47  satish_powsum.do  
>    2.7k  12/16/02 15:26  satish_wide_121602.dta
> 
> . dir saf*
>   40.1k   8/21/01 11:41  satish2_aug01.dta 
>   40.1k   8/24/01 11:48  satish4_aug01.dta 
>   57.6k   8/24/01  9:23  satish6_aug01.dta 
>   57.6k   8/24/01 14:26  satish8_aug01.dta 
> 
> . dir sag*
> file not found
> 

On the evidence here the second is clearly
wrong, or at least puzzling, while the others are 
not obviously incorrect. All I can say is that saving 
a data file in Stata 8.1 as -satish2_aug01.dta-
followed by -dir saf*- could not reproduce this. 

I suggest sending a log with -about- and the results of 

!dir 
dir 

to tech support. 

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