Re: listing files with spaces, using wildcard

[John Doe <jdmls@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces
> 1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog
> 2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog
> 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog
> 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
> 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
> 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog
> i'm trying to figure out how i can do a complete list of all files with
> *foo*dog
> so i get the files with spaces and underlines...
> i thought simply doing somehting like
> ls '*foo_*.dog' and surrounding the filename with single quotes would
> work.. but it doesn't.
> thoughts/pointers/etc...

If you quote, it disables the completion...

$ echo *foo_*.dog
2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog

$ echo '*foo_*.dog'
*foo_*.dog

JD


      

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