alain williams (HE12025-10-30): > However: in this case the filename expansion (*pdf) is done by the shell and > so > it is the shell which will have sorted the names.
You are starting from a true fact and arriving at a wrong conclusion. It is really ls that will decide the sort order here. I suggest you run some tests. > I assume that there is not a directory with name that matches *pdf - in which > case ls will sort the names in there. Indeed. Regards, -- Nicolas George
