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bug#11228: Bug in ls?
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Eric Blake |
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bug#11228: Bug in ls? |
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Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:49:41 -0600 |
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tag 11228 notabug
thanks
On 04/11/2012 06:13 PM, dfm wrote:
> Hi!
> I noticed that
> ls -a *old
> won't match .xsession.old.
> I don't know if it a bug or a feature. ;)
Feature. In fact, ls isn't even involved - glob expansion is done by
the shell before ls even gets to see argv.
> To list it I must type ls -a | grep .old
> or ls .*old
Indeed - POSIX requires that file names beginning with '.' do not match
a glob starting with '*'; if you want to list such files, you have to
explicitly match the leading dot.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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