On 10/06/2020 13.31, Sid Boyce wrote: ...
Never came across it in the previous 40+ years. Still scratching my head --- check this! OK for *.png and *.zip but not for *.mp4.
Sure, because you have a file named "-23133 Safe...mp4" and you do not have a file named "-23133 Safe.png". The command line "ls *.mp4" expands to something like: ls -23133 Safe Shutdown for Raspberry Pi with Super Capacitors.mp4 The New Frontier A Gentle Introduction to Rust - Matthew Gathu.mp4 The "ls" command never sees the asterisk, it is expanded. And yes, this is standard behaviour in unix or linux since ever. I don't like it, but that's how it is. You can probably run a trace and find out. It is bash which is doing this, not konsole. Try xterm, it will be the same. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)