Empty Directory? (Was: Picking a character from a word)

[Michael Morrell]

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BTW: what does "set nonomatch" do ???

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In csh, setting "nonomatch" causes the shell to leave unchanged a construct
like "*" which does not match anything, rather than giving an error message.
For example, if my current directory only has the file "foo" and I type:

  ls b*

I will normally get an error ("No match").  If nonomatch is set, however,
the shell will say: "b* not found".

  Michael Morrell