Re: Wildcards

[timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu]

Thanks for everyone's help.
One more question that I couldn't find when I browsed the man pages.
What does the '$' mean/do in "grep "/$""?
and what does the '^' mean/do in "grep "^d""?
Thanks,
Timothy

On 08-Jun-98 David Lauder wrote:
> For directories, try:
> 
>     ls -lF | grep "/$"
> or:
>     ls -l | grep "^d"
> 
> You could create an alias for this in your .bash_profile as "lsd":
> 
>     alias lsd='ls -lF | grep "/$"'
> 
> 
> For executables, try:
> 
>     ls -lF | grep "*$"
> 
>  And alias it as "lsx":
> 
>     alias lse='ls -lF | grep "*$"'
> 
> Do a "man ls" and "man grep" and experiment with some of the other
> options.
> 
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E-Mail: timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu
Date: 08-Jun-98
Time: 12:45:35

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