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April 8, 2013 14:39
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Sometimes (quite often) I hate bash. This is mostly an issue if you want spaces in your directory path.
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| mkdir gubbins | |
| touch gubbin{0..9}.file | |
| ls gubbins/ # responds as you would expect | |
| ls gubbins/* # responds as you would expect | |
| ls gubbins/*.file # responds as you would expect | |
| ls "gubbins/*.file" # no such file or directory | |
| ls 'gubbins/*.file' # no such file or directory | |
| ls "gubbins/"*".file" # works! damnit. | |
| # So you have to unescape the directory path to search for a file. |
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