Re: du

2005-10-01 Thread Smylers
Aaron Crane writes: David King writes: shopt -s nullglob At least in a vaguely contemporary bash. This, of course, results in commands responding as if you typed nothing where a wildcard doesn't match. So ls -l *.o results in a directory listing instead of a slightly

Re: du

2005-10-01 Thread Luke Kanies
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Smylers wrote: For example, suppose this directory contents: $ mkdir new $ cd new $ touch aa bb '[ab]*' '[ef]*' I don't know if that's hateful, but I can definitively state that it's evil. -- SCSI is *not* magic. There are fundamental technical reasons

Re: du

2005-10-01 Thread Smylers
Luke Kanies writes: On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Smylers wrote: For example, suppose this directory contents: $ mkdir new $ cd new $ touch aa bb '[ab]*' '[ef]*' I don't know if that's hateful, but I can definitively state that it's evil. Well I did say that it's a pathological