Josh Narins wrote:
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
I have that version of bash installed. It's the version that both sarge and sid use.
The output from that command lists one directory. ".." At least it didn't return either an empty set or everything.
What kernel are you running?