Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 08:59, Josef Lowder wrote:
> 
>>I agree. That was my point, also. I dislike clutter and also bloat. 
>>Curiously, ls -A | wc on my system yields 70 and ls -a | wc yields 72. 
>>
>>I wonder why I get different results from ls -A and ls -a ? 
>>Is there an efficient syntax to string commands so I could do a 'diff' 
>>on these two listings (without listing each to a file to compare files) 
>>to see what the two additional files are? 
> 
> ---
> from cli type
> 
> info ls
> 
> Craig
> 
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Since diff compares two files and there's only one stdin, you'd have to 
create at least one temp file for diff.

ls -A >temp.list
ls -a | diff - temp.list
rm temp.list

I'd expect that you'd get the same result from any directory!
See man ls.

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