From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 10:40:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out002pub.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0634B37B405 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from verizon.net ([199.171.52.20]) by out002pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id g0HIegd07125 Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:40:43 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C471A42.2020707@verizon.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:38:58 -0500 From: Simon Morton Reply-To: smorton@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,zh-CN,de-DE,zh-TW,zh, zh- MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ann kok Cc: smorton@acm.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: command ls question References: <20020117175201.42129.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ann kok wrote: > Dear all > > My english is not good > so it makes you confusion > >>From the book, it shows rm temp? > it can remove tempa tempb temp1 Correct. > ? stands for one char Correct. > > If I have files a, bc , ef, but ls ? doesn't work! What do you mean by "doesn't work"? Please include in your email the output of the "ls ?" command and why you think it is not correct. You are not giving us enough information. Simon > > > --- Simon Morton wrote: > >>ann kok wrote: >> >> >>>Dear all >>> >>>I would like to know how about command ls >>> >>>display a char #ls ? doesn't work >>> >> >>Works for me... >> >>holly:~> ls ? >>ls: No match. >>holly:~> echo "foo" > f >>holly:~> ls ? >>f >>holly:~> >> >> >>>remove the files temp1 temp2 temp3 >>> >>>#rm temp [1-5 7-9] doesn't work >>> >> >>It works if you remove the spaces. >> >>holly:~> echo "foo" > temp1 >>holly:~> echo "foo" > temp2 >>holly:~> echo "foo" > temp3 >>holly:~> rm temp[1-57-9] >>holly:~> ls temp* >>ls: No match. >>holly:~> >> >> >>>and >>> >>>ls doesn't accurate to display disk space >>>because some files are link by command ln >>>it counts double >>> >> > >> >>>is it right? >>> >> >>True. Use du or df to find out about disk space. >> >>-- >>http://www.SimonMorton.com >>smorton at acm dot org >>\rm -rf /bin/laden >> >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > -- http://www.SimonMorton.com smorton at acm dot org \rm -rf /bin/laden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message