----Original Message---- >From: Charles D. Russell > "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not. How can this happen? > > The following example occurred just after I had renamed some *.htm files > to *.html using > an ash shell script. No such problem occurred, however, when I used DOS > "rename" to make > the same change.
Not 100% sure what's going on here, but can I just ask one thing?
> $ ls > _index.htm* finder.dat* lib_over.htm* setjmp.htm* time.htm* > assert.htm* float.htm* lib_prin.htm* signal.htm* types.htm* > charset.htm* function.htm* lib_scan.htm* stdarg.htm* wchar.htm*
[etc] Did your ash script go wrong and rename all those files with actual asterisks on the end ?
> Documents/books_open/c/stdcbook_bad/STD_c > $ ls assert.htm > ls: assert.htm: No such file or directory <-- **** THIS IS THE PROBLEM > ****
But ISTM there is no such file as assert.htm. What output do you get from ls assert.htm\* ? _________________
$ ls assert.htm\* ls: assert.htm*: No such file or directory
The * in the listing just indicates that the file is executable (an ls option that I use by default). Unaliasing gives:
$ \ls _index.htm finder.dat lib_over.htm setjmp.htm time.htm assert.htm float.htm lib_prin.htm signal.htm types.htm charset.htm function.htm lib_scan.htm stdarg.htm wchar.htm crit_pb.htm gif limits.htm stddef.htm wctype.htm ctype.htm index.htm locale.htm stdio.htm junk declare.htm intro.htm math.htm stdlib.htm errno.htm iso646.htm portable.htm string.htm express.htm lib_file.htm preproc.htm syntax.htm
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