Tom Newton wrote:
> On 2008-02-11, ray <rollingviolation@domain.invalid.com> wrote:
>> Hey, that works!
>>
>> the double // appears to be a "bug" by using colors or long format
>> because if I do /bin/ls -ld */ I don't get the double //.
>
> You can also do just:
>
> \ls -d */
>
> Save a few keystrokes.
>
> Thanks for the informative thread. I have tried several times to
> get the "-d" option to work and failed.
>
> Tom
>
>

the \ means don't run the aliased command?
I really do have to sit down one day and read the entire bash manual
from beginning to end.

Ray