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Clarification for UNIX-newbies
Authored by: MasterUltan on Mar 22, '03 01:16:45PM

What is meant by "hdiutil ... will not accept wildcards" is that hdiutil only accepts one argument at a time. The term "*.dmg" stills undergoes shell expansion and a list of all .dmg files is sent to hdiutil. If you try "hdiutial attach *.dmg" in a directory with more than one .dmg file, you'll get the following error message:

hdiutil attach: image file already specified.

Which is generated when hdiutil sees the second argument.



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