Hi,
 Thanks for the quick reply! I didn't occur to me that the shell was doing 
the expansion in this case; thanks for clearing that up. I'll just go ahead 
and use find for now; that works fine for my purpose. 

On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:00:11 PM UTC+8, Ivar Nesje wrote:
>
> Julia does not use a shell to expand commands when you input with 
> backticks and `ls` does not match patterns. You can use run(`find . -d 1 
> -name *.txt`) to use a program that does not depend on the shell to do the 
> pattern matching.
>
> See how echo * works to see that it is the shell who does the expansion, 
> and not ls.
>
> Ivar
>
> kl. 11:27:22 UTC+1 onsdag 19. februar 2014 skrev Roger Herikstad følgende:
>>
>> Hi,
>>  I'm a bit surprised that this doesn't work
>>
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>> julia> ;ls
>> file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt
>>
>> julia> ;ls *.txt
>> file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt
>>
>> julia> run(`ls *.txt`)
>> ls: *.txt: No such file or directory
>> ERROR: failed process: Process(`ls *.txt`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
>>  in pipeline_error at process.jl:476
>>  in run at process.jl:453
>>
>>
>> How do I use wildcards in conjunction with run(`ls ..`)? I am trying get 
>> a list of files matching a certain pattern that I will then do some 
>> processing on. In other words, I would like to do something like this:
>>
>> files = readall(`ls file*.txt`)
>>
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