Re: Hidden Dir
Tuomo Latto <[email protected]>
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Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
> Can some one please explain why I am not seeing the ah8633.628 dir in the following output? This is the msys output from a machine running Windows XP.
>
> GNUCash@ELSHADAI ~
> $ ls -la /tmp/a*
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 GNUCash Administ 0 Jan 30 18:42 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 GNUCash Administ 0 Jan 30 18:42 ..
[...]
> /tmp/ah8633.628:
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 GNUCash Administ 0 Jan 30 18:42 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 GNUCash Administ 0 Jan 30 18:42 ..
These two are the same.
Shell globs a* to a list of names (/tmp/ah8633.628) passed
on to ls, which treats them as ordinary parameters.
What you are seeing is the contents of /tmp/ah8633.628.
If there were more matching names, you would see
the directory name listed.
Try "ls -lda /tmp/a*"
See http://www.google.com/search?q=man+ls
--
Tuomo
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