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Re: bash, grep, and regular expressions



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???

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