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|    Dave Royal to Dave Royal    |
|    Re: tree command weirdness    |
|    06 Jan 18 15:33:06    |
      From: dave@dave123royal.com              On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 15:30:24 +0000, Dave Royal wrote:              > 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?              Oops. Well - you you get the idea. Just imagine those ├ and └ are all       down the left hand edge ;)       --       (Remove any numerics from my email address.)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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