[CentOS] listing files with spaces, using wildcard

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Mon Feb 23 17:14:58 UTC 2009


on 2-20-2009 5:24 AM � spake the following:
> You should use double quotes (").
> 
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/muhammad_ali.html
> 
> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/emma_goldman.html
> 
> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/michelangelo.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> George Burns  - "I would go out with women my age, but there are no
> women my age."
> 
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM, bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net
> <mailto:bedouglas at earthlink.net>> wrote:
> 
>     hey...
> 
>     here's one i can't see..
> 
>     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...
> 
>     thanks
> 
> 
And posting a footer about the evils of top posting "while" you top post is
priceless!



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