[arch-general] BASH no longer does 'for i in $(ls); do ls $i; done'??

Samuel Martín Moro faust64 at gmail.com
Tue May 18 17:40:29 EDT 2010


you may want to try
for i in $(`which ls` -d .) ; do `which ls` $(`which pwd`)/$i; done
it does work here

Samuel Martín Moro
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Sergey Manucharian
> <ingeniware at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Excerpts from Linas's message of Tue, 18 May 2010 22:31 +0200:
> >
> >> David C. Rankin wrote:
> >> > Guys,
> >> >
> >> >     I'm usually quite good at one-liners, but my simple ones no
> >> > longer work in Arch. Same cli works fine in suse. What have I
> >> > messed up? To wit:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >     What could keep the simple cli from working on Arch? I know
> >> > this stuff worked before updates this morning... What should I look
> >> > at?
> >> Bash was updated from 4.1.5(2) to 4.1.7(2).
> >> I can't reproduce it, though.
> >
> > I cannot reproduce it either and suspect that your "ls" under $() is
> > not the real ls, but an alias. I've played with some, and they indeed
> > produce bad output.
>
> If this is the case, replace "ls" with "/bin/ls" in the above and try again
>


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