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From: John Wingate on 22 Jun 2010 18:08 mjt <myswtestYOURSHOES(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:58:25 -0500 > John Wingate <johnww(a)worldpath.net> wrote: > [snipped] >> What did you discover? And I don't understand your question. But I >> doubt there is a real problem, since what you show is consistent with >> the way ls has behaved for forty years. Consider: >> >> $ ls >> topsyturvy >> $ ls *op >> ls: cannot access *op: No such file or directory > > dumb question - how did all those files show up in the > (ls *op*) list when you only have one file in the dir?: I hope you are not seriously asking this question for yourself, but are simply trying to get the OP to think about it. The answer appeared in the portion you snipped below, which showed what kind of file that single file is. >> $ ls *op* >> Apr26Ltop Legal:Definitions Legal:Top Log.Bak >> LEGAL:SU Legal:Definitions.Bak Legal:Top.Bak Routledge >> LEGALXLA Legal:Dictionarys Log > [snipped] -- John Wingate Mathematics is the art which teaches johnww(a)worldpath.net one how not to make calculations. --Oscar Chisini
From: John Wingate on 22 Jun 2010 18:29
mjt <myswtestYOURSHOES(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:10:35 +0000 (UTC) > J G Miller <miller(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 11:57:07 -0500, mjt asked: >> > dumb question - how did all those files show up in the (ls *op*) >> > list when you only have one file in the dir?: >> >> Yes, it is at first a little confusing. >> >> In fact there are no "files" in the directory, only the single >> directory topsyturvy. >> >> So when you do ls *op*, it matches the op in topsyturvy and then >> lists all of the files contained within, including the LEGALXLA. > > The oversight on my part is that I assumed John did not > create all those files in the topsyturvy dir And we all > know what "assumed" means :) Now I understand where your question came from. I used touch and cut and paste the file names from the post I was responding to. And I should remember to read all the responses before following up. :) -- John Wingate Mathematics is the art which teaches johnww(a)worldpath.net one how not to make calculations. --Oscar Chisini |