On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 19:45 -0500, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> > wrote: > > Beside the space issue, you also might take care about globbing. > > If you e.g. "cp *" you won't copy hidden files of the directory, but all > > inside folders of the directory. If you e.g. "rm *", you'll delete all > > files, including hidden files. > > The command "cp *" will not recurse into directories without -r or -a > to enable recursion. The "*" is expanded by the shell and is passed as > arguments to the command. This means that "*" will expand to the same > set of files and directories, regardless of the command in front of > it.
*lol* sorry, I should have add the -r switch. > In bash, you can enable globbing of hidden files with "shopt -s > dotglob". > dotglob If set, bash includes filenames beginning with a `.' in > the results of pathname expansion. I didn't know that :). Anyway, I just thought it might be an important hint, for somebody who has got issues with spaces. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1317799964.2577.16.camel@debian
