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Oh, yeah ... that too. :)

For the benefit of the OP, if your pattern doesn't match any pathname, it isn't expanded. It is passed to the command as is.

Regards,
Alister

Show us the entire script. That behavior would only occur if the argument to ls is quoted or if pathname expansion is disabled (very unlikely).



It has nothing to do with ^. It has to do with...

That pattern is incorrect. If the second character is any non-digit (or even if there is no second character at all), the pattern will match. * allows zero digits to match.

Regards,
Alister