'sudo ls'

[Nils Kassube]

pol wrote:
> I would expect to get the listing of the content of the dir 'profiles',
> in every home:
>
>   sudo ls -l /home/*/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/profiles
>
> Surprisingly, only content of one user is displayed.
> I am sure that every user has files in that dir, as one can verify by
> replacing the "*" with user name, in the above command.
>
> What is wrong?

The commandline is expanded by the shell before any program is started. 
The .kde directories however are not world readable. Therefore only the 
contents of the own directory is displayed. Use this instead:

sudo sh -c "ls -l /home/*/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/profiles"


Nils