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RE: LS and spaces in path names (the xth)
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Nikhil Nair wrote:
> Just a quick observation - but first an apology: I haven't read the
> thread, as I've only just subscribed, so this may have already been said.
>
> I'm a bit surprised by this wildcard behaviour, as I would have assumed
> "CD 1..." would have been picked up by "CD *".
>
> I'd suggest that this is a bash issue, not one with ls: I get similar
> behaviour if I use echo rather than ls. I presume, when you use ls, it's
> bash's job to expand wildcards in the command line before they're passed
> to ls...
Not if they're quoted. As others said, 'ls "CD "*' works as expected.
Igor
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