From: bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> > 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... If you quote, it disables the completion... $ echo *foo_*.dog 2foo_aa_bbbb_cc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog $ echo '*foo_*.dog' *foo_*.dog JD