hmm... that'll work.. thanks...
-----Original Message----- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org]on Behalf Of John Doe Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:24 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] listing files with spaces, using wildcard From: bruce <bedoug...@earthlink.net> > goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces > 1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog > 2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog > 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog > 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog > 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog > 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog > i'm trying to figure out how i can do a complete list of all files with > *foo*dog > so i get the files with spaces and underlines... > i thought simply doing somehting like > ls '*foo_*.dog' and surrounding the filename with single quotes would > work.. but it doesn't. > thoughts/pointers/etc... If you quote, it disables the completion... $ echo *foo_*.dog 2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog $ echo '*foo_*.dog' *foo_*.dog JD _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
