when i have a file and directry starting with same letter and i do a ls it does a recursive ls..
example
output of ls -ltr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Jul 16 15:26 a
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 256 Jul 16 15:26 aa
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 256 Jul 16 15:26 bb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Jul 16 15:26 b
output of ls -ltr a*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Jul 16 15:26 a
aa:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Jul 16 15:26 insideaa
it automaticaly goes inside aa dir and display the contents
i just wanted the files or dir names startring with a* to be displayed