RE: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not

["Ross Boulet" <ross at rossb dot com>]

> > "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not.? How can this
> happen?
> >
> > The following example occurred just after I had renamed
> some *.htm files
> > to *.html using
> > an ash shell script.? No such problem occurred, however,
> when I used DOS
> > "rename" to make
> > the same change.
> 
> ??Not 100% sure what's going on here, but can I just ask
> one thing?
> 
> > $ ls
> > _index.htm*??? finder.dat*???? lib_over.htm*
> setjmp.htm*?? time.htm*
> > assert.htm*??? float.htm*????? lib_prin.htm*
> signal.htm*?? types.htm*
> > charset.htm*?? function.htm*?? lib_scan.htm*
> stdarg.htm*?? wchar.htm*
> 
> [etc]? Did your ash script go wrong and rename all those
> files with actual
> asterisks on the end ?
> 
> > Documents/books_open/c/stdcbook_bad/STD_c
> > $ ls assert.htm
> > ls: assert.htm: No such file or directory? <--? ****
> THIS IS THE PROBLEM
> > ****
> 
> ??But ISTM there is no such file as assert.htm.? What
> output do you get from
> 
> ls assert.htm\*
> 
> ????
> 
?
?
ls is acting like the -F option is specified which would
cause the '*' to be displayed at the end of any file name
which is executable (as one prior message shows these files
are).? Under what shell is ls being run and is there an
alias for ls that is causing this option to be invoked?? If
so, are there any other options in the alias?
?
?



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