What the hell are these dirs?

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Sat Jul 25 17:11:35 UTC 2009


On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:26:51 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> What's wrong with
> 
>         echo *
> 
> and
> 
>         echo */*


1. Because the "ls" never completes and eventually bombs out 

2. The entire directory listing shows up on one single long line with a
simple echo * command.

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