ls command refuses to give just folder names per command line switch

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sat Nov 28 22:17:06 UTC 2009


Florian Diesch wrote:
> At least in 9.10 Bash supports **/*.html to match recursively all
>  .html files - at least until the maximum command line length isn't
>  reached.

That doesn't really look recursive to me. Here it only matches files in 
any of the subdirectories of the current directory but not in the 
current directory or sub-subdirectories. Am I missing something?


Nils




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