What filesystem? It may be a case-insensitive file system like fat32... /* Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 09:40 -0700 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */
> In my Linux class last night we were doing a review my typed in ls -m > [-d-p]* which returned the file Dog. Can anyone explain how this works? > The -m I understand places commas between the file names. I was under > the impression that [-d-p] would return any character between d and p > and that this statement is case sensitive. The * means that can be any > number of those characters. If could explain this as to why it returns > Dog I would be grateful, because my teacher doesn't have a clue why it > does that. Thanks. > Dallin Jones > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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