"ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not
Dave Korn
dave.korn@artimi.com
Tue May 10 02:41:00 GMT 2005
----Original Message----
>From: Charles D. Russell
>Sent: 09 May 2005 20:07
> "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\*
?
cheers,
DaveK
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