On 01/11/2016 08:56 AM, [email protected] wrote:
For example, if I have the files "foo", "foo1" and "foo bar" in my
directory, a call to
ls foo*
yields only foo and foo1. However, a call to ls "foo "* yields "foo
bar" (sans quotes) as expected.
That's strange, and it's not what I observe on Fedora 23 x86-64 with
Bash 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu):
$ touch foo fool 'foo bar'
$ ls foo*
foo foo bar fool
Most likely this is a bug with your shell, or somewhere else in your
operating system, and not in 'ls' itself. This is because '*' processing
is done by the shell. You can verify this by running strace and looking
at its first line of output. E.g.,:
$ strace ls foo*
execve("/usr/bin/ls", ["ls", "foo", "foo bar", "fool"], [/* 63 vars */]) = 0
...
This says that the kernel invoked "ls" with the arguments "foo" "foo
bar", and "fool".
