Re: Weird problem with function ls or system("ls...")

[Christian Weickhmann]

Hello again (sing) ;),

thanks for your answers. I didn't think of Matlab-compatibility as a 
constraint. Anyways. Perhaps I misformulated my problem. So here again short 
and simple: There must be a difference between "ls *" and "ls *a*".

>   $ mkdir foo
>   $ cd foo
>   $ ls *
>   ls: cannot access *: No such file or directory
>   $ ls *a*
>   ls: cannot access *a*: No such file or directory

John, you are totally right, I'd expect such a behaviour, too. But on my 
Ubuntu system ls * gives an empty set and ls *a* gives "ls: cannot access *a* 
...".

Believe it or not, I just confirmed this strange behaviour on a second Ubuntu-
PC.

Best regards,
Christian

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