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According to FReeZ on 9/9/2007 10:05 AM: > Thank you a lot Eric, > > that FAQ is directly what I have needed, I wonder why the links are not > included in the man. I haven't meant 'ls -- *', because it displays the > filenames recursivelly, while 'ls *' simply displays the filenames from > the current directory only, and using multi-column layout. Perhaps I > need to read more about the patterns, so I'll do. You are misunderstanding. 'ls -- *' and 'ls *' are identical, except when * expands to a file that ls recognizes as a potential option. The whole point of -- is to separate options from problematic file names. Perhaps you are getting confused with 'ls -R -- *'? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG5TOS84KuGfSFAYARAqhVAJ9BEY3UacUbAg/YZRtHI2qozIWO8ACg1gq2 3suNATbkrH9X8CWDgFEE2Z4= =jyiV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
