From: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: spaces in filenames should be a crime.
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:38:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72056cfd-7ded-cb6b-fb4a-52e72ce814aa@inlv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee8d03d9-be65-9177-04e8-99fa05756257@eastlink.ca>
Op 28-03-17 om 16:29 schreef Ray Andrews:
> zsh creates the list all by itself ls or no ls. ls is a passive
> recipient, there is no 'request'. Yes?
Yes. And this applies to nearly[*] every command.
But 'ls' is not entirely passive. There are things that 'ls' *does* do
with the arguments it receives. It's true it doesn't resolve glob
patterns, but:
* If any of the arguments to 'ls' (after resolving glob patterns) are
directories, it will list the contents of those directories, and not
just the directories themselves, unless the '-d' option is given.
* It will provide extra information about the files if an option like
'-l' is given.
* It formats the output into columns if it finds itself writing directly
to a terminal. (To see the difference, try 'ls' and then
'ls | cat')
As always, read the manual page for more information.
HTH,
- M.
[*] One command it does *not* apply to is 'find'; it does glob pattern
matching by itself. But that does not disable the shell's glob pattern
resolver; the shell treats it like any other command. That's why you
have to tell the shell NOT to resolve those glob patterns by quoting
them, e.g.: find /some/dir -name '*.txt'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-28 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-26 20:22 Ray Andrews
2017-03-26 20:57 ` Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2017-03-26 21:18 ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-03-26 22:41 ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-26 23:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-03-27 0:47 ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-27 1:11 ` Chris ccb
2017-03-27 1:45 ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-27 1:44 ` Martijn Dekker
2017-03-27 2:17 ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-27 18:53 ` Jesper Nygårds
2017-03-27 23:18 ` Mikael Magnusson
2017-03-28 0:46 ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-28 9:08 ` Martin Richter
2017-03-28 14:29 ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-28 16:10 ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-03-28 18:01 ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-28 18:38 ` Martijn Dekker [this message]
[not found] ` <60a213ad-6cb3-bef4-9e61-f2c1611a5e71__30788.3357666016$1490694707$gmane$org@gmx.de>
2017-03-29 11:27 ` Stephane Chazelas
2017-03-29 14:50 ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-29 15:21 ` Peter Stephenson
2017-03-29 16:21 ` Ray Andrews
2017-03-30 17:36 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-03-28 16:42 ` Matthew Martin
2017-03-26 21:24 ` Peter Stephenson
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