Re: Question about Unix commands

2010-11-05 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Thanks. On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Kevin Mattingly wrote: You can use ls directoryname -a *, where * is the wildcard. The -a will show all hidden files. There are ways to set a variable with the directory name by using wildcards as well. On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Garry Turkington

Re: Question about Unix commands

2010-11-04 Thread Garry Turkington
Hi, Or escape the spaces with a backslash. Garry On 11/4/10, louie louiem...@wavecable.com wrote: Put quotes around the file name with spaces in the name. On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Bejarano, Rafael P. wrote: Hello, How does one get the ls command in Unix to display directories whose

Re: Question about Unix commands

2010-11-04 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Thanks. I'll try that. Rafael On Nov 3, 2010, at 10:25 PM, louie wrote: Put quotes around the file name with spaces in the name. On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Bejarano, Rafael P. wrote: Hello, How does one get the ls command in Unix to display directories whose names consist of more

Re: Question about Unix commands

2010-11-04 Thread Kevin Mattingly
You can use ls directoryname -a *, where * is the wildcard. The -a will show all hidden files. There are ways to set a variable with the directory name by using wildcards as well. On Nov 4, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Garry Turkington wrote: Hi, Or escape the spaces with a backslash. Garry On

Question about Unix commands

2010-11-03 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Hello, How does one get the ls command in Unix to display directories whose names consist of more than one word, separated by a space? For example, ls /Users/Rafael/Documents/My Stuff or ls documents/my stuff Thanks in advance to anyone with the ability and inclination to help me out with this

Re: Question about Unix commands

2010-11-03 Thread louie
Put quotes around the file name with spaces in the name. On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Bejarano, Rafael P. wrote: Hello, How does one get the ls command in Unix to display directories whose names consist of more than one word, separated by a space? For example, ls /Users/Rafael/Documents/My