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

[Francesco Potorti`]

>Look at the different behaviour:
>
>The directory is empty.
>But for ls * it gives me an empty set but return code 0 (all fine).
>For ls *a* it gives me an error (return code 2).

Yes, this is off-topic for the Octave list. However this is what I see,
and it looks consistent:

$ mkdir empty
$ cd empty
$ ls *
ls: cannot access *: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
2

$ ls *a*
ls: cannot access *a*: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
2

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

$ ls --version
ls (GNU coreutils) 7.4
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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