Adam Garside wrote:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:58:42AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [snip]I can't write an expression that parses the beginning of the filename column.How about:ls -la | awk '$8 ~ /^[^.]/{print}'which returns all non-hidden files and directories. -- asg
I'm sorry to say, that it returns everthing. It's as if the output of ls -al is printed directly to the screen. Don't feel bad though this has happened to me every time I've tried something, and to everyone else too, and I've had 8 or 10 people give me examples that they say works on their machines.
That's why I'm here on this list. I can't figure this out. It's like there's a bug in this, but I'm not willing to write it off to that as yet because I don't have that much experience with regular expressions.