Re: bash, grep, and regular expressions

[Josh Narins <josh@narins.net>]

egrep, my son, the future is in egrep

You'll be able to match on word boundaries with "\b"

Of course, what I found actually works was

ls -al | egrep "\B\."

hth,
Josh

P.S. bash 2.05b.0(1)-release

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