[Mono-osx] Calling ls with wildcards

[Maxi Combina]

I think that the wildcard is interpreted by your shell.
When using ProcessStartInfo("ls", "/dev/*"), you are actually requiring an
"ls" on the file "/dev/*" :)

Maxi

2011/9/14 Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com>

> Hi,
>
> The following fills the result string with a list of items in /dev:
>
> ProcessStartInfo EnumProcessInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("ls", "/dev");
> EnumProcessInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
> EnumProcessInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
> EnumProcessInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
> Process EnumProcess = Process.Start(EnumProcessInfo);
> string Result = EnumProcess.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
> EnumProcess.WaitForExit();
> EnumProcess.Close();
>
> If I change the first line to the following then the result is empty:
>
> ProcessStartInfo EnumProcessInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("ls", "/dev/*");
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> I am using the current version of MonoMac and MonoDevelop (downloaded
> yesterday) on SnowLeopard.
>
> thanks, Andy
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