Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 01:02:08 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Glob error? Message-ID: <20081108010208.213ecadf.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20081107231303.GA9804@wattres.Watt.COM> References: <20081107231303.GA9804@wattres.Watt.COM>
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On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:13:03 -0800, Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM> wrote: > ( Please cc: me on replies, as I can't keep up with traffic on -questions ) > > I did the following: > > % cd /tmp > % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur > % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur > % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur > % ls -ld */dir1/new > drwxrwxr-x 2 steve wheel 512 Nov 7 15:10 a/dir1/new/ > % Really strange... I did use C Shell on FreeBSD 7-STABLE. % mkdir -p a/dir1/new a/dir1/cur % mkdir -p b/dir1/new b/dir1/cur % mkdir -p c/dir1/new c/dir1/cur % ls -ld */dir1/new drwxr-xr-x 2 poly staff 512 Nov 8 00:57 a/dir1/new/ drwxr-xr-x 2 poly staff 512 Nov 8 00:57 b/dir1/new/ drwxr-xr-x 2 poly staff 512 Nov 8 00:57 c/dir1/new/ > Shell doesn't seem to matter (have tried both tcsh and bash). I did try BASH too, with same result as above - works. The calls to mkdir and ls refer to programs, not to shell internal commands. The only problem could be the * wildcard that the shell would have to expand before calling the actual ls program... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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