Weird problem with function ls or system("ls...")

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Jul-2009, Christian Weickhmann wrote:

| > I think we are getting off topic
| Yepp, I'll keep it short:
| 
| 
| >   echo *
| returns "*" (just an asterisk on the line).
| 
| Yes, I am using bash (GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-
| gnu)).
| 
| Next week-end I'll test it on a SUSE machine. If it works there, it could be 
| some bogous expand command in bashrc or profile or where the hack.

My guess is you have the "nullglob" shell option set.  What does

  shopt nullglob

tell you?  See the bash man page for more info about the shopt builtin
and the nullglob option.

jwe