Ken Dibble wrote: > As you can see, there are indeed some directories, but a whole bunch of > files > which shouldn't be there as well. > > The big question now is why are some files considered directories?
I don't see the confusion here. You're feeding to "ls -l" the parameters "./" , "./files to backup.txt" , and "./idiot.txt" which are the results of find. "./" is a directory, so ls prints its contents not its name, that's why you see listings for all the files in the current directory, followed by listings for "files to backup.txt" and "idiot.txt". When you add "-d" to ls, you get just three lines of output, corresponding to the three things that find found. How is this confusing? Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/