Re: Looping a script

[John H Darrah <jhd giddens com>]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> 
>     a) If I do 'ls -AQU *.mp3', the result is always sorted.
>        However, if I just do 'ls -AQU' it's not sorted.
> 

The shell (bash?) is sorting them for you.

Type:

	echo ls -AQU *.mp3

to see what the command looks like after the shell expands
'*.mp3' filename arg.


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