2014-09-27



In reworking the backend of lue  and  apov,  I  came  across  the
difference between `ls foo/' and `ls foo/*'. The former one calls
ls(1) with one argument. Ls(1) then prints the names of the files
in that directory (without a leading ``foo''). In the latter one,
however, ls(1) is called with a list of arguments: one  for  each
file  in `foo'. Ls(1) then prints those path names (including the
leading ``foo''), and additionally lists the  contents  of  those
files  that are directories. `ls -d foo/*' prints the same as `ls
foo', but with ``foo/'' preprended.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>