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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script to Abort if file name has space. Post 302789921 by Corona688 on Thursday 4th of April 2013 12:16:49 PM
Old 04-04-2013
My point is they're not the same.

`ls` means "run the ls command, and split apart its output on all whitespace". You can get away with this when your filenames have no spaces in them, but if they do, that's a problem.

* means 'generate a list of all files in the current folder'. It's not part of ls, it's part of the shell, meaning it works nearly everywhere. Type echo * into your shell and see what it does.

You can use it in more complicated ways. A* would be 'all files beginning with an uppercase letter A', *.txt would be "all files ending in the extension .txt", and so forth. You can even do things like /path/to/*/file, to find a file named 'file' inside any folder inside /path/to/.

It won't split on spaces, only on filenames.
 

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NAME

       rmf - remove folder (only available within the message handling system, mh)

SYNOPSIS

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OPTIONS

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