[Mono-osx] Calling ls with wildcards

[Bojan Rajkovic]

On Sep 14, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Andrew Ayre wrote:

> Thanks for the hint Maxi. What is the right way to do what I want?
> Ultimately I want to get a subset of items that are in /dev:
> 
> ls /dev/tty.*
> 
> thanks, Andy
> 
> On 9/14/2011 2:13 PM, Maxi Combina wrote:
>> 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
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Why not just use Directory.GetFiles()? It has a wildcard-capable parameter that you can use to get all the tty* files in /dev/.

—Bojan