ls

[Demis Cunha]

Linda,

If you wrinting a script you could use perl for that. Then you could
load the list of files in a array, sort that array and print for the
user.
Just a tip! ;)

Em Ter, 2010-01-26 às 19:50 -0600, Linda escreveu:
> Werner Schram wrote:
> > nepal wrote:
> >   
> >> On Tuesday 26 Jan 2010 21:03:53 Linda wrote:
> >>   
> >>     
> >>> Is there a way to make ls silent if there is no match? I'm not
> >>>  finding  it in the options, but am hoping I'm just reading over it
> >>>  in the man page. Thanks
> >>>           Linda
> >>>
> >>>     
> >>>       
> >> Hi Linda
> >>
> >> File a bug report!
> >>
> >> The correct response to *ls* for a non-existent target should be an 
> >> empty list.
> >>
> >> nepal.
> >>   
> >>     
> > ls does print an error message if you provide a filter which doesn't 
> > yield a result (ls: cannot access ...: no such file or directory). I 
> > think she is refering to that. But because the error message is sent to 
> > the standard error output, you can dispose of it by using:
> >
> > ls [non-existing filename] 2>/dev/null
> >
> > Werner
> >
> >   
> The cannot access is the message I was refering to. I was using an ls 
> system call inside of a program.
> ls -1 partial-filename*
> it dumps the results into a file and gives the user a list to choose 
> from.  I just was hoping for a flag to silence the error message but I 
> can redirect standard error instead.
>                             Thanks
>                              Linda
>