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   Dave Royal to All   
   tree command weirdness   
   06 Jan 18 15:30:24   
   
   From: dave@dave123royal.com   
      
   I have a directory 'music' which has many subdirectories, each with an   
   artist name - e.g. 'Band'. Under each artist is a set of directories with   
   an album name - e.g. 'Music from Big Pink' - and within that a set of mp3   
   tracks. I expect many people have something similar.   
      
   If I use this command:   
   tree -d  >~/temp/output1   
   I get a listing of which this is an extract - it shows the end of artists   
   beginning with A and the start of those beginning with B:   
   ├── Astor Piazzolla   
   │   ├── Adiós noniño   
   │   └── Nuevo Tango Hora Zero   
   ├── Band   
   │   └── Music from Big Pink   
   ├── Band of Hope   
   │   └── Rythm and Reds   
   ├── Barbara   
   │   └── LAigle noir   
      
   I want to produce a list of only artists beginning with a specified   
   letter. I should be able to do that with this command which should show   
   the Bs:   
   tree -d  -P B* >~/temp/output2   
      
   output2 starts thus:   
   Band of Hope   
   └── Rythm and Reds   
   Barbara   
   └── LAigle noir   
      
   So the first B artist is missing. This happens with any letter. If there   
   is only one artist (Z for Zaz in my case) I get the complete A-Z list.   
      
   I've tried various combinations of arguments, and ways of specifying the   
   pattern, but I can't make it work. This is Leap 42.3 I've also tried on   
   Debian.   
      
   I begin to think this is a bug. Do others see the same? Any ideas?   
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