[debbugs-tracker] bug#11228: closed (Bug in ls?)

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> Bug in ls?
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> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:13:19 -0300
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> Hi!
> I noticed that
> ls -a *old
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> I don't know if it a bug or a feature. ;)
> To list it I must type ls -a | grep .old
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> Thank for your time.
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> dfm
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#11228: Bug in ls? Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:49:41 -0600 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1

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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