backtics

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello,

* On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 08:39:21AM -0600 Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/24/2010 07:43 AM, melkor@orangepalantir.org wrote:
>> This probably isn't a backtic problem, but using backtics causes it.
>>
>> ls `ls`
>>
>> results in file not found errors. ie:
>>
>> bash-3.2$ ls
>> 35ms  40ms  80ms
>> bash-3.2$ ls `ls`
>> ls: cannot access 35ms: No such file or directory
>> ls: cannot access 40ms: No such file or directory
>> ls: cannot access 80ms: No such file or directory
>> bash-3.2$
>
> WJFFM:
> $ mkdir abc && cd abc && touch 35ms 40ms 80ms
> $ ls
> 35ms  40ms  80ms
> $ ls `ls`
> 35ms  40ms  80ms

Another option (for the OP):

Have you tried the command:

$ ls|wc -l


You ask why? Then try this:

$ touch "35ms  40ms  80ms"
$ ls `ls`
ls: cannot access 35ms: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 40ms: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 80ms: No such file or directory

Here, ls|wc -l gives 1 as output.

HTH,
Spiro.

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