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   Message 136,459 of 138,051   
   marrgol to Dave Royal   
   Re: tree command weirdness   
   06 Jan 18 16:59:43   
   
   From: marrgol@address.invalid   
      
   On 2018-01-06 at 16:30, Dave Royal wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   Yes, looks like a bug indeed.  Report it! :-)   
   And for now try omitting '-P':   
      
   tree -d B*   
      
      
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