On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 08:49:41PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Glenn English wrote:
> >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???
> >
>
> I thought about this a little more and from it's behavior of filtering
> out files with extensions I'd say it's not filtering based on the . that
> designates whether a file or directory is hidden.
>
> I have a few files without extensions and it returns those, but any file
> with an extension is filtered out. So, this isn't really resovling the
> problem I'm having.
>
>
Hi Freddy,
find -maxdepth 1 |grep -v "^\./\."
(remove files that start with ./.)
this find files and directories in the current directory that are not
hidden. Hidden files and directories start with .
Cheers,
Kev
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