On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 16:08 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > What I've been attempting to do with grep > and regular expressions is list only non-hidden directories and/or > files. I am unable to come up with an expression that will elimate > hidden files and return non-hidden files at the same time. > > ls -al | grep -v ' \.\<[a-zA-Z0-9].*\>' # returns everything > > ls | grep -e '\<[^.][[:alnum:]]' # returns everything > > ls | grep -e '\<[.][[:alnum:]]' # returns an empty set > ls -al | grep -v ' \.' seems to work here??? -- Glenn English ghe@slsware.com GPG ID: D0D7FF20
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