is this a bug in Bash-Terminal ?

dschinn1001

I wanted to know if there are any hidden files in some directory and so I typed this - but it failed ???

linux@home ~ $ cd /
linux@home / $ ls .*
ls: Zugriff auf '.' nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
linux@home / $ cd
linux@home ~ $ ls .*
ls: Zugriff auf '.' nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
linux@home ~ $ ls *
ls: Zugriff auf '*' nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
linux@home ~ $ ls *

What is wrong here ? Or is this a bug in bash ?

dschinn1001

I have too masked the special chars . and * with backslash - this does have no effect ?

kyrios

This looks strange indeed, I think the only time I got something like this was when typing ls in a terminal after the directory in which I was was deleted or the drive was unmounted.

By the way, the command to see hidden files is ls -a

  -a, --all                  do not ignore entries starting with .

EbonJaeger

Interesting result... using ZSH and running that command in / just tells me no matches found (as there are no hidden files or directories that start with ., confirmed by ls -a).

picnerd

The two commands don't work?

ls -pla .* #for home

and
cd / ls -pla .* #for root

xahodo

What does
ls -a
do for you?

picnerd

ls -a lists all folders whether hidden or not.
ls - pla makes it clearer. Since there are no hidden folders in the root directory, no hidden folders are displayed there.
ls --help & man ls shows all necessary information.

Let's stay in the home directory. Of course this only applies to one level. If you want to show all hidden folders Recursiv then use ls -plaR. This will make it confusing but can help if you are looking for a certain folder you don't know where it is.

Then I'd rather use locate or find.

dschinn1001

picnerd

ls -plaR is a strong command ...

dschinn1001

Yeah - I wanted to avoid
ls -a or ls -al
because it would be too much output, so I tried then
to list only the files with . in the beginning - and this seems not to work in bash.
Thanks to picnerd, but not -la - it is too much output.

elfprince

ls -Alhd .*