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When I run myscript on Ubuntu I get error messages for all the lines that only have **** .
Do I have to put a # in front of these, or is there a setup/preferences I can change?

Hi Ollie,

bash will treat each * as an expansion character. **** will match all the files in your directory. You will of course get different results depending what directory you are in.

If you echo **** you will see the command bash is trying to execute. Hopefully you don't have a file named rm and all your other files in the directory named with a letter that follows r in the alphabet!

[code][rsimms@opus test]$ ls
cat words
[rsimms@opus test]$ cat words
Oops
[rsimms@opus test]$ echo *
cat words
[rsimms@opus test]$ echo ****
cat words
[rsimms@opus test]$ ****
Oops
[rsimms@opus test]$
[/code]
- Rich