In the last episode (Jul 23), Dan Nelson said:
> In the last episode (Jul 23), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > But I would think that this means the shell couldn't open the
> > directory to get the filenames to match?
>
> That's also a possibility. You can use cat to tell the difference
> though.. Here's a "ls" shell function that knows the difference
> between an empty directory and one it can't read. Unfortunately, it
> requires cat, whereas plain "echo *" is done without forking:
>
> ls () { cat . > /dev/null && echo * ; }
Heh. I knew there was a way :)
ls () { < . > /dev/null && echo * ; }
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Dan Nelson
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