Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Adam Garside wrote:On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:58:42AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [snip]I can't write an expression that parses the beginning of the filename column.How about: ls -la | awk '$8 ~ /^[^.]/{print}' which returns all non-hidden files and directories. -- asgI'm sorry to say, that it returns everthing. It's as if the output of ls -al is printed directly to the screen. Don't feel bad though this has happened to me every time I've tried something, and to everyone else too, and I've had 8 or 10 people give me examples that they say works on their machines.That's why I'm here on this list. I can't figure this out. It's like there's a bug in this, but I'm not willing to write it off to that as yet because I don't have that much experience with regular expressions.
How about:
ls -la | awk '{ if (substr($9,0,1) != ".") {print $9}}'
-mike