What the hell are these dirs?
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 22:48:17 UTC 2009
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 11:11 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> 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
So? In both your example and mine the * is expanded by the Shell.
There's no difference.
> 2. The entire directory listing shows up on one single long line with a
> simple echo * command.
True, but does it matter in this case?
poc
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