What filesystem? It may be a case-insensitive file system like fat32...
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> 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
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