ls *.c in a nutshell
*Introduction
In computing, ls is a command to list computer files and directories in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
*How to use ls command
The syntax for the ls
command is as follows:
In this article we are taking an example of “ls *.c “, so this command is composed into two parts : “ls” and “*.c” .
As we learned before “ls” is a command used to show list files and directories and the results changes as we change the option or case the pattern in our case we have “*.c”.
An asterisk “*” is a wildcard if combined with ls like this “ls *” it shows all files and directories in the current directory and here is an example :
Finally by adding “.c” we get “ls*.c” which means list all files and directories in the current directory ending with .c .
In my situation i had no files that match the pattern .
That’s it for this article thank you for reading see you in the next article .