From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Release 3 of DJGPP port of fileutils 4.1
Date: 15 Oct 2002 11:02:51 GMT
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CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

> This persuaded me to see what was happening on my system:

I don't think what you saw happening there has anything to do with
fileutils, or 'ls' in particular.  You're observing the behaviour of
the globbing functions, because you typed 'd*'.  I.e. from what this
looks like, 'd*' expanded to just "debug", because Descript.ion was
hidden.  And 'ls debug' will list the contents of directory 'debug'.

Note that the non-listing of files marked hidden only applies to the
case where the names of those files are not passed to ls as arguments,
but where a hidden file sits in a directory "ls" is listing.  The real
issue to check would have been: does "ls" without any options list
"descript.ion"?

> Looks like I should get the upgrade :-) 

That almost certainly won't change anything for the particular case
you're looking at.

> It is attacking the subdirectory!

Not "attacking", just displaying.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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