Hello again tia,
Sorry if I sounded a little short-tempered in my last reply. It is a little mind boggling. I did a touch .x.c and the following is the result... P3V4X:/usr/local/Temp/other# touch .x.c P3V4X:/usr/local/Temp/other# ls *.c one.c two.c P3V4X:/usr/local/Temp/other# ls .*c .c .x.c As you can see, the .x.c file displayed in the 'ls' output for me... hmmm. Perplexed, Jimmy Richards On 21 Mar 2001 08:26:07 +0000, john smith wrote: > Hi, > mind boggling...;) try touch .x.c instead of just .c > .x.c does not show with the rest... > any ideas? > > > > >Hello, > > > > > > Well, I don't know what you're problem is. Just to make sure I was > > doing this right just for you... I went into a directory that was > > empty. I then did this.... > > > > > > touch one.c two.c .c jim > > > > > > This is the results..... > > > > > > P3V4X:/usr/local/Temp/other# ls *.c .*c > > .c one.c two.c > > > > > > P3V4X:/usr/local/Temp/other# ls > > jim one.c two.c > > > > > > P3V4X:/usr/local/Temp/other# ls -a > > . .. .c jim one.c two.c > > > > > > > > > > > >Jimmy Richards > > > > > > > >On 21 Mar 2001 05:08:15 +0000, john smith wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Jimmy, > > > ls *.c.*c gives me no such file or directory... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >ls *.c .*c > > > > > > > > > > > >That's it, > > > > > > > > > > > >Jimmy Richards > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >On 21 Mar 2001 04:19:07 +0000, john smith wrote: > > > > > hi, > > > > > Let's say I have 3 files namely; one.c, two.c and a hidden .c file > > > >(.hid.c). > > > > > now I want to list them... the command > > > > > ls -al *.c shows only the two files and it doesn't show the third > >one... > > > >any > > > > > ideas? > > > > > > > > > > tia