I don't see the problem. > ls -hog "CD *" > ls: CD *: No such file or directory
Of course. There is no file whose name is the four character string "CD *", so ls doesn't find anything. > ls -hog "CD [12]*" > ls: CD [12]*: No such file or directory Ditto. There is no file whose name is the six character string "CD [12]*", so ls doesn't find it. > ls -hog "CD*[12]*" > > WORKS. What do you mean by "WORKS"? I get $ ls -hog "CD*[12]*" ls: CD*[12]*: No such file or directory which is exactly as expected since there I have no file with the is no file whose name is the eight character string "CD*[12]*". If you want to list the CD-files with spaces, try $ ls -hog CD\ * -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jun 28 15:30 CD 1 - Multimedia.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jun 28 15:30 CD 2 - Multimedia.dat $ ls -hog "CD "* -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jun 28 15:30 CD 1 - Multimedia.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jun 28 15:30 CD 2 - Multimedia.dat Note that the asterisk can not be quoted. Peter
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