Idiom for $(ls -d $pattern 2>/dev/null)

[Maarten Litmaath]

das at lanai.cs.ucla.edu writes:

\Do you have a favorite idiom for (ksh syntax):
\	for f in *
\(Which is not what you really want, since if the directory is empty, f takes on
\the value "*").

set - `
	for i in .* *
	do
		echo "$i"
	done | sed -e '/^\.$/d' -e '/^\.\.$/d'
`
[ -f "$1" ] && {
	for i
	do
		echo "$i"
	done
}
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