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Re: question about ls

From	Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: question about ls
Date	2018-09-28 08:00 +0200
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On 28/09/18 1:14 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 07:55:56AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
>> But also note the difference when using the letter "l" vs the numeral "1":
>>
>> westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -la | wc
>>      7      56     321
>> westk@westkbox:/opt$ ls -1a | wc
>>      6       6      54
> 
> But also note that using ls -l gives a completely wrong answer.
> 
> wooledg:~$ mkdir /tmp/x && cd "$_"
> wooledg:/tmp/x$ touch $'this\nis\none\nfile'
> wooledg:/tmp/x$ ls -l | wc -l
> 5

Eww. Tab completion also gets screwed up by this:

richard@zircon:~/test$ rm <tab>
file  is    one   this

.. but you can't actually complete from any of those.

Richard

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          Re: question about ls Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-09-26 01:20 +0200
            Re: question about ls Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-09-27 15:00 +0200
              Re: question about ls Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-09-27 15:20 +0200
                Re: question about ls Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-09-28 08:00 +0200
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                Re: question about ls Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-09-28 14:30 +0200
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                Re: question about ls Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-03 15:00 +0200
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