Oops - never mind. I see my error.
ls /usr* will list all files within usr & usr2 directories. the / is needed to specify the files within. Thank you! javajo91 wrote: > > 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-tp29972022p29973893.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
