[ILUG] ls behaviour

[Waider]

According to Gavin McCullagh:
> 
> In the normal way I get back everything which matches that pattern.  Great.
> However, on the occasion that nothing matches it why do I get a full listing of
> the directory?  Why don't I get an empty list or file not found or
> something?
> 
> it's particularly irritating when you do something like
> 
> for i in `ls lattice_*.dat`
> do
> rm $i
> done

Waider (eris.euroconex.prv) $ > ls lattice_*.dat
ls: lattice_*.dat: No such file or directory

I suspect your ls is aliased to something unhelpful.

Waider.
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