backtics

[Eric Blake]

On 09/24/2010 07:43 AM, melkor@orangepalantir.org wrote:
> This probably isn't a backtic problem, but using backtics causes it.
>
> ls `ls`
>
> results in file not found errors. ie:
>
> bash-3.2$ ls
> 35ms  40ms  80ms
> bash-3.2$ ls `ls`
> ls: cannot access 35ms: No such file or directory
> ls: cannot access 40ms: No such file or directory
> ls: cannot access 80ms: No such file or directory
> bash-3.2$

WJFFM:
$ mkdir abc && cd abc && touch 35ms 40ms 80ms
$ ls
35ms  40ms  80ms
$ ls `ls`
35ms  40ms  80ms

In trying to think of things that might be interfering, do you have a 
problematic alias or shell function named ls?  For example, if ls is 
aliased to 'ls --color=always', and those particular files would be 
colored by your dircolors settings, then I could see that causing a 
failure (hint, use --color=auto, not --color=always, when aliasing ls). 
  Also, running under 'set -vx' may be informative.

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