[SOLVED] encountered a strange problem part locale or keycode

Question

i have exhausted all my possibilities at this point so asking the community for some guidance.
Terminal: urxvt
localectl status:
System Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF8
VC Keymap: sv-latin1
X11 Layout: se
X11 Model: pc105
X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
locale:
LANG=en_US-UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Part of the problem is that the asterix(star) * is not representing right keycode or something.
for example,
ls -l | grep *.txt //returns nothing even if it has results.
also in tab compleate it adds parts of the command into the other command
or adds it again like pacman pacman or pacmanpac.
Also if you do just * it will return the first order file name from the directory;
zsh: command not found: c-notes.log
locale -a:
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX
sv_SE.utf8
vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=sv-latin1
FONT=ter-112n
locale.conf
LANG=sv_SE.UTF8
Any words of wisdom into this would be greatly appreciated.
-Thanks in advance
Last edited by Learning (2014-10-12 21:14:55)

Answer 1

This has nothing to do with ls, you are getting the expected results.  You are simply using grep incorrectly.
$ touch one.txt two.txt three.txt
$ ls *.txt
one.txt three.txt two.txt
$ ls *.txt | grep *.txt
$ ls *.txt | grep '*.txt'
$ ls *.txt | grep '.*\.txt'
one.txt
three.txt
two.txt
$ ls *.txt | grep '.txt'
one.txt
three.txt
two.txt
$ ls *.txt | grep '\.txt$'
one.txt
three.txt
two.txt
The last one is probably what you want.
Of course if this is actually for ls, you should just pass the parameter to ls itself as in the second command above `ls -l *.txt`.
Note that the third command above, or any variation of  `ls | grep *.txt`, would expand to `ls | grep one.txt two.txt three.txt` before anything else is done.  The shell expands any unquoted or unescapted wildcard characters before grep is even called.
Last edited by Trilby (2014-10-12 20:38:12)