tag 11228 notabug thanks On 04/11/2012 06:13 PM, dfm wrote: > Hi! > I noticed that > ls -a *old > won't match .xsession.old. > I don't know if it a bug or a feature. ;)
Feature. In fact, ls isn't even involved - glob expansion is done by the shell before ls even gets to see argv. > To list it I must type ls -a | grep .old > or ls .*old Indeed - POSIX requires that file names beginning with '.' do not match a glob starting with '*'; if you want to list such files, you have to explicitly match the leading dot. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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