Morning - I'm reading "Learning the bash Shell" by Newham & Rosenblatt and have a question regarding pathname expansion and wildcards.
They mention that wildcards can be used as part of a pathname. The example they give is that if you wanted to list all the files in the /usr & /usr2 directories you could simply type ls /usr*. I understand this. I'm having a problem however following the logic of this statement that says that in order to list only the files that begin with a b&e in these same directories you can type this: ls /usr*/[be]* If ls /usr* already lists all files in the /usr & /usr2 directories why do you need a forward slash before the set containing b&e? thank you for any assistance! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Question-regarding-pathname-expansion-tp29972022p29972022.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
