you may want to try for i in $(`which ls` -d .) ; do `which ls` $(`which pwd`)/$i; done it does work here Samuel Martín Moro {EPITECH.} tek4 CamTrace S.A.S "Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ..." Xorg.conf(5) On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Sergey Manucharian > <ingeniware@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > If this is the case, replace "ls" with "/bin/ls" in the above and try again >