Re: ls command

Hello.

Rich wrote:
[snip]
> Is it the shell that expands the * or is it the command?  I guestimate would be the shell
 > is expanding it. :)

It's the shell.

[snip]
> We actually live on ksh and not bash. I feel that is the root of all my
> nightmares. :)

ksh should expand stuff like "*_*" the same way.

I think they're mostly compatible, but bash has some extensions that are 
non-POSIX, I think. IIRC that's mostly to do with variable expansion 
rather than wildcards. The bash manual is probably a better source of 
compatibility information than my memory, though.

(Puts on his flame-proof trousers.)

It could be worse. You could be using csh or tcsh. 8)

(Takes off his flame-proof trousers.)

> Just curious...
> Would you know how to get rid of that annoying 80 col line limit in ksh.
> I've been searching and searching, asking anyone technical enough to
> know.  Just when we think we have it, nope.  I looked at a lot of the
> stty options compared Linux to the SGI and Solaris machines we run. 
[snip]

Don't know anything about that.

Bye, Rich =]

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