Excerpts from Linas's message of Tue, 18 May 2010 22:31 +0200: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Guys, > > > > I'm usually quite good at one-liners, but my simple ones no > > longer work in Arch. Same cli works fine in suse. What have I > > messed up? To wit: > > > > > > What could keep the simple cli from working on Arch? I know > > this stuff worked before updates this morning... What should I look > > at? > Bash was updated from 4.1.5(2) to 4.1.7(2). > I can't reproduce it, though. I cannot reproduce it either and suspect that your "ls" under $() is not the real ls, but an alias. I've played with some, and they indeed produce bad output. Cheers, Sergey