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

[Eric Blake]

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According to James Youngman on 12/22/2005 11:45 PM:
> 
> 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.

As a first cut at the answer, try this instead:

find . -name '*.xml' | xargs ls

(Of course, due to potential filename spacing issues, it is safer to use
the GNU version of findutils, in which case you can do something like:

find -name '*.xml' -print0 | xargs --null ls
)

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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