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Re: How the ls command interpret this?


From: Reuti
Subject: Re: How the ls command interpret this?
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 22:46:29 +0200

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Am 03.07.2017 um 20:30 schrieb BaBa:

> Le 2017-07-03 19:17, Eric Blake a écrit :
>> Case 3:
>> $ mkdir foo
>> $ cd foo
>> $ touch a[b]    # the glob doesn't match, so it is passed unchanged
>> $ ls ?[b]       # the glob doesn't match, so it is passed unchanged
>> ls: cannot access '?[b]': No such file or directory
>> $ cd ..
>> $ rm -rf foo
> 
> Yes understood, the glob didn't match.

And if globbing fails, it won't try it without. I mean, it could use ?'[b]' and 
try again which would succeed.

$ ls ?'[b]'
a[b]
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