[plug] ls

Matt Kemner zombie at wasp.net.au
Tue Feb 27 10:16:40 WST 2001


On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, James Andrewartha wrote:

> You want ls -R "*.html" / to stop the shell expansion happening.

What the above command does is tell ls to try to show you a file called
"*.html" and to then show every file on the system.

Specifying multiple arguments to ls just tells ls to show each one.

 - Matt




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