Re: possible bug of ls in Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 4 Update 2

[James Youngman]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 12:04:42PM +0800, address@hidden wrote:

> I am using Redhat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4 update 2.  When
> I issued a command ls -R it showed all the subdirectories, as
> expected. But when I used a command ls -R *.xml , it didn't
> recursively list all the xml files. Is it a bug? 

No.   To find out why, do this in the same directory:

echo ls -R *.xml

We should really add this question (and an answer) to the FAQ list.
I'll think up some wording over the new year period.

James.