Re: Question about wildcards in Unix

From	Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Question about wildcards in Unix
Date	2014-01-20 12:55 -0800
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JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> writes:

> On 14-01-19 17:46, Joanna Shuttleworth wrote:
> >
> >> ls -R *.c only lists .c files in the current directory
> >> ls -R */*.c will list .c files in any subdirectory
> 
> 
> > no, but the first command would recursively list the entire contents
> > of any directory with a name ending in '.c'.
> 
> 
> That is the problem. It doesn't do that. It only lists .c files present
> in the current directory and does not go into subdirectories to look for
> other .c files.

You didn't read carefully what Joanna wrote.

It will recurse into other directories _if the directory name matches
*.c_.  Of course then it will give you _all_ files in those
directories.

In other words, the command actually does what you are telling it to,
just not what you want it to.

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Question about wildcards in Unix JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-19 17:19 -0500
  Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-19 14:42 -0800
  Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Joanna Shuttleworth <js@example.com> - 2014-01-19 22:46 +0000
    Re: Question about wildcards in Unix JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-19 18:16 -0500
      Re: Question about wildcards in Unix dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-01-20 12:43 +1300
        Re: Question about wildcards in Unix nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-19 19:02 -0500
          Re: Question about wildcards in Unix dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-01-20 17:41 +1300
        Re: Question about wildcards in Unix JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-19 19:55 -0500
          Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 03:00 +0000
          Re: Question about wildcards in Unix mcarels@xs4all.nl (Maarten Carels) - 2014-01-20 10:05 +0100
            Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-20 09:49 +0000
              Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 12:57 -0800
                Re: Question about wildcards in Unix JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-20 16:15 -0500
                Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 14:10 -0800
                Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-20 23:06 +0000
                Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 16:39 -0800
                Re: Question about wildcards in Unix nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 18:44 -0500
                Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 16:42 -0800
                Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-21 10:23 +0000
            Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 18:43 +0000
      Re: Question about wildcards in Unix Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 12:55 -0800

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