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# 8  
Old 03-23-2008
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Originally Posted by era
*bling* Useless Use of Glob in Backticks! Also the "ls -l" actually is a rather grave error. You could simply drop the -l, but the whole ls is redundant.
if you would read it right... it's no an -l it's -1... so this should work!
# 9  
Old 03-23-2008
Oops. my bad, sorry. It's still Useless because ls doesn't actually add anything, the glob is expanded by the shell before ls sees it, and ls -1 (one) will still be wrong if there are subdirectories.
# 10  
Old 03-23-2008
jepp... so it was a point to start of for the original poster... i'm not going to write a script (even a small one) for other people. they should do the work and if they come to a point where they don't get any further, they can ask.
if you are in a direchtory and do an "ls -1 *.gz" you get every file with .gz at the end in THAT directory... so what is the problem?
if your solution works... fine. but the above works also! but let the original poster work out the solution that works for HIM.

greets,
DN2
# 11  
Old 03-23-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by DukeNuke2
if you are in a direchtory and do an "ls -1 *.gz" you get every file with .gz at the end in THAT directory... so what is the problem?
If there are directories matching the wildcard, that is not what you will get. It's a fairly academic point in this particular context, but why not give hints which are correct regardless of circumstances.

At the risk of hubris, I suggest you google for "useless use of backticks".
# 12  
Old 03-23-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
If there are directories matching the wildcard, that is not what you will get. It's a fairly academic point in this particular context, but why not give hints which are correct regardless of circumstances.
i think my hint wasn't uncorrect... maybe your way ist better/nicer/other... whatever. my solution works and yours works also and is better code. Smilie
but which directory matches the wildcard *.gz?

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Originally Posted by era
At the risk of hubris, I suggest you google for "useless use of backticks".
nice one. added it to my bookmarks.
# 13  
Old 03-23-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by DukeNuke2
but which directory matches the wildcard *.gz?
It depends.

Code:
mkdir "i can name my directories whatever I like (*:".gz

# 14  
Old 03-23-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by era
It depends.

Code:
mkdir "i can name my directories whatever I like (*:".gz

jepp... i see something like that all the time.
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