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ls bug

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Massimo Masotti <massimo.masotti.1960 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:23:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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From: Massimo Masotti <massimo.masotti.1960 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: ls bug
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:57:37 +0000

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Hi,
I have 12 pieces in my disk, from sda1 to sda12.

This is the expected behavior:

[root <at> max ~]# ls -l /dev/sda[1-9]
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 7 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 8 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 9 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda9

The following instead seems to me a bug:

[root <at> max ~]# ls -l /dev/sda[1-12]
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2

Ls version: ls (GNU coreutils) 8.21

Best Regards,
Massimo Masotti

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Message #8 received at 26228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Reuti <reuti <at> staff.uni-marburg.de>
To: Massimo Masotti <massimo.masotti.1960 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26228: ls bug
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 21:32:31 +0100

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Am 23.03.2017 um 20:57 schrieb Massimo Masotti:

> Hi,
> I have 12 pieces in my disk, from sda1 to sda12.
> 
> This is the expected behavior:
> 
> [root <at> max ~]# ls -l /dev/sda[1-9]
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda3
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda4
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda5
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda6
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 7 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda7
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 8 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda8
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 9 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda9
> 
> The following instead seems to me a bug:
> 
> [root <at> max ~]# ls -l /dev/sda[1-12]
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2

I read this as range 1-1 and single character 2.

This should work:

ls -l /dev/sda{1-12}

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Message #11 received at 26228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bishop Bettini <bishop.bettini <at> gmail.com>
To: Massimo Masotti <massimo.masotti.1960 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26228: ls bug
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:36:18 -0400

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On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Massimo Masotti <
massimo.masotti.1960 <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have 12 pieces in my disk, from sda1 to sda12.
>
> This is the expected behavior:
>
> [root <at> max ~]# ls -l /dev/sda[1-9]
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda3
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda4
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda5
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda6
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 7 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda7
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 8 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda8
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 9 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda9
>
> The following instead seems to me a bug:
>
> [root <at> max ~]# ls -l /dev/sda[1-12]
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2
>

Don't blame ls, that's your shell globbing: [] denotes a range of single
characters. [a-z], [0-9], etc. If you're using bash, you might want {1..12}
(extended range expansion). See also
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/globbingref.html

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Message #14 received at 26228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Massimo Masotti <massimo.masotti.1960 <at> gmail.com>
To: Bishop Bettini <bishop.bettini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26228: ls bug
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:41:22 +0000

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Yes, this works.

Thank you very much and truly sorry for my mistake. Please excuse me.

Best Regards,
Massimo

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Bishop Bettini <bishop.bettini <at> gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Massimo Masotti <
> massimo.masotti.1960 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have 12 pieces in my disk, from sda1 to sda12.
>>
>> This is the expected behavior:
>>
>> [root <at> max ~]# ls -l /dev/sda[1-9]
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda1
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda3
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda4
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda5
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda6
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 7 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda7
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 8 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda8
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 9 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda9
>>
>> The following instead seems to me a bug:
>>
>> [root <at> max ~]# ls -l /dev/sda[1-12]
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda1
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 23 14:39 /dev/sda2
>>
>
> Don't blame ls, that's your shell globbing: [] denotes a range of single
> characters. [a-z], [0-9], etc. If you're using bash, you might want {1..12}
> (extended range expansion). See also http://www.tldp.org/LDP/
> abs/html/globbingref.html
>

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bug closed, send any further explanations to 26228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Massimo Masotti <massimo.masotti.1960 <at> gmail.com> Request was from Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 24 Mar 2017 05:02:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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