Re: ls features

[Paul Jarc]

Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> The 'ls' command has many great features/options but case insensitivity is 
> not one of them. 

Where would you want to have case insensitivity?  If you're thinking
of pathname generation from wildcards, that's handled by the shell,
not ls.  This might be what you want:
$ ls [Tt][Ee][Ss][Tt]*
Check the documentation for your shell to see what other globbing
features it has.

> Also, things like 'ls *' will fail if the directory listing is too
> long.

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument%20list%20too%20long


paul