You should use double quotes (").
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM, bruce <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
>
>
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