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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:35:34 +0200 (CEST)
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From: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam AT online DOT no>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: SV: LS and spaces in path names (the xth)
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I don't see the problem.

> ls -hog "CD *"
> ls: CD *: No such file or directory

Of course. There is no file whose name is the four character string "CD *", so ls doesn't find anything.

> ls -hog "CD [12]*"
> ls: CD [12]*: No such file or directory

Ditto. There is no file whose name is the six character string "CD [12]*", so ls doesn't find it.

> ls -hog "CD*[12]*"
> 
> WORKS.

What do you mean by "WORKS"? I get

$ ls -hog "CD*[12]*"
ls: CD*[12]*: No such file or directory

which is exactly as expected since there I have no file with the is no file whose name is the eight character string "CD*[12]*".

If you want to list the CD-files with spaces, try

$ ls -hog CD\ *
-rw-r--r--  1 0 Jun 28 15:30 CD 1 - Multimedia.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 0 Jun 28 15:30 CD 2 - Multimedia.dat

$ ls -hog "CD "*
-rw-r--r--  1 0 Jun 28 15:30 CD 1 - Multimedia.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 0 Jun 28 15:30 CD 2 - Multimedia.dat

Note that the asterisk can not be quoted.

Peter


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