10-05-2008
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Originally Posted by
reecygee
all i need is this one line?
Since the shell expands wildcards, that is all you need.
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or did i do something wrong to start off with?
You changed directory (to the root directory), which meant that anything you did later applied only to that directory (unless you did another cd later). Since you want to list files in "present working directory", there is no sense to changing directory.
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