for what it's worth, 'find' works the sane way as well...
$ touch "my file"
$ find ./my* -exec echo "-{}-" \;
-./my file-
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> "Jan" == Jan L Peterson <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Jan> Also, can you suggest any alternate ways to get a list of files
> Jan> ending in .meta that doesn't use a wildcard?
>
> It's not the wildcard I'm complaining about, it's the ls.
>
> ls *wild*card* does this:
>
> 1) shell looks at all the files
> 2) shell finds all the ones that match *wild*card*
> 3) shell launches "ls" with all of those names already in its argv[]
> 4) ls wakes up
> 5) ls looks at each of its arguments in turn and says "yup, that's a file"
> 6) ls echos that item to stdout
>
> In this case:
>
> LS IS COMPLETELY USELESS
>
> so why are you wasting it? In fact, it's even dangerous, if any of
> those matched names are actually directories.
>
> Just use the shell:
>
> for i in *.meta; do echo "something with $i"; done
>
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