-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:31:37PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Remember, unquoted wildcards on the command line are interpreted by > the shell for file globs.
.. and by default when ls is passed the name of a directory, it will how you its name, followed by a ":", then list its contents: > $ ls /etc/x* .. expands to $ ls /etc/xemacs21 /etc/xlogmaster /etc/xmcd before ls even sees it. You can force ls to shown only directy's name with -d: $ ls -d /etc/x* /etc/xemacs21 /etc/xlogmaster /etc/xmcd James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBO2jr0SX8mcqArqQRAQEUWAH+NkyxM85tUkTTdfc+F8dC7SJOQ1a6/Xqm cQqzwj5YDoTHwE0VtklFjuuK1BIwe/xypyu2WiTNYWe1+31DiusP7A== =WGXG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
