Re: zsh not accepting commandline args at end of command

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 19 Nov, 2003, at 12:32, Eric Smith wrote:
> But is weems to be using the same ls
> [eric@apple ~]  $ which ls
> /bin/ls
> [eric@apple ~]  $ /bin/ls /tmp -F
> /bin/ls: -F: No such file or directory
> /tmp:
> ssh-XXUIWy1q  v235390
> [eric@apple ~]  $ exit
>
> now in bash:
> eric@apple:~$ /bin/ls /tmp -F
> ssh-XXUIWy1q/  v235390/

The command results from bash are simply wierd.

Using
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0)

ls /tmp -F
generates exactly the same output as does  zsh or tcsh  (all without 
initialization files).
               ls: -F: No such file or directory

The command syntax is
                ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWZabcdfghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]

The parameters are positional, with the options first and the operands 
second.
The "-F" is treated as a file name, hence "no such file."

This is true for both the BSD and SystemV versions of ls.


T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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