A Generation Lost in the Bazaar - Poul-Henning Kamp article

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 06:32:47PM -0400, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> Sure, but why do I have to add the cryptic */ to this? Why not just ls -d?
>
> Because the shell matches only directories with */ where as * matches
> everything (other than . files).
>
> ls has nothing to do with it.  It just does what it is told.
>
> echo */
>
> Nice and short.
>
> ls's job is actually to count the files, run stat on them to get dates,
> permissions, etc, and format it nicely.  The list itself is the shell's
> job, unless you are doing a recursive ls or not specifying any files
> and reyling on ls doing something useful based on the current working
> directory.

     ls does generate the list if given a directory as an argument,
     without -d.

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