RE: LS and spaces in path names (the xth)

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Andreas Eibach
>Sent: 28 June 2005 14:14

> fix this in cygwin (as it _definitely_ works in Linux,

  I'm glad you're so definite about this, it's good to have such confidence
in your own beliefs that you feel no need to verify them against reality.

> ls -hog "CD *"
> ls: CD *: No such file or directory
> 
> also
> 
> ls -hog "CD [12]*"
> ls: CD [12]*: No such file or directory
> 
> fails.
> 
> But
> 
> ls -hog "CD*[12]*"
> 
> WORKS.

  I notice that you cut and pasted the output from the other commands to
show they failed, but you didn't cut and paste the output from this one to
show it works.  That's because you can't.  That's because it doesn't.  Here,
let me show you:

-----------------------------snip-----------------------------
dk@mace /artimi/firmware> cd test
dk@mace /artimi/firmware/test> touch CD0.dat
dk@mace /artimi/firmware/test> touch CD\ 1\ -\ Multimedia.dat
dk@mace /artimi/firmware/test> touch CD\ 2\ -\ Multimedia.dat
dk@mace /artimi/firmware/test> ls -hog "CD *"
ls: CD *: No such file or directory
dk@mace /artimi/firmware/test> ls -hog "CD [12]*"
ls: CD [12]*: No such file or directory
dk@mace /artimi/firmware/test> ls -hog "CD*[12]*"
ls: CD*[12]*: No such file or directory
dk@mace /artimi/firmware/test> uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 mace 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) 2005-06-24 11:27 i686 unknown unknown
Cygwin
dk@mace /artimi/firmware/test>
-----------------------------snip-----------------------------

> You can't deny at least one of these shown DO work in Unix and Linux.

  Yes, I can, because unlike you, I actually tried it, and you DIDN'T.

-----------------------------snip-----------------------------
[dk@pepper test]$ touch CD0.dat
[dk@pepper test]$ touch CD\ 1\ -\ Multimedia.dat
[dk@pepper test]$ touch CD\ 2\ -\ Multimedia.dat
[dk@pepper test]$ ls -hog
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1        0 Jun 28  2005 CD 1 - Multimedia.dat
-rw-r--r--    1        0 Jun 28  2005 CD 2 - Multimedia.dat
-rw-r--r--    1        0 Jun 28  2005 CD0.dat
[dk@pepper test]$ ls -hog "CD *"
ls: CD *: No such file or directory
[dk@pepper test]$ ls -hog "CD [12]*"
ls: CD [12]*: No such file or directory
[dk@pepper test]$ ls -hog "CD*[12]*"
ls: CD*[12]*: No such file or directory
[dk@pepper test]$ uname -a
Linux pepper.cam.artimi.com 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[dk@pepper test]$ 
-----------------------------snip-----------------------------

  That's why I can post genuine cut-and-pasted output from my tests, but you
have to falsify the output from yours.  There are two VERY worthwhile
lessons to be learnt from this:

  1)  Don't EVER put simulated output in a post.  Only ever cut-and-paste it
from a real shell prompt.

  2)  Don't make claims about something that you haven't actually tried
yourself.


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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