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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Spurling, Shannon wrote:
> Okay, I confirmed that it is a shell option by asking a very
> knowledgeable co-worker. He looked it up and you can use the following
> command to disable case for wild card expansion in BASH:
>
> shopt -s nocaseglob
Yep, it works!
That must mean that it is possible to write a bash script that will do
case-insensitive ls commands. Don't you think?
> Also, as an example of what ls * is actually doing, do the following....
>
> echo *
>
> Interesting.... :-)
I agree. I had no idea that's what would happen until you brought it up.
> ls is not for finding files, it's for listing the contents of the
> current directory.
Or other directories, or recursively up the tree.
Mike
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