Hello Jason, Thank you for the extra command line commands that I can use. I am saving this in a folder called sysadmin because that is where I would use these commands most, that is in doing system administration tasks.
Thanks again, Michael ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On February 7, 2005 10:06 am, Jason Louie wrote: > Not sure if you know this but is helpful none the less. > > If you are looking for a sepcific file you can try to show all files > starting with "f": > # ls f* > > Also you can show all files starting with "fire" in the following command: > # ls fire* > > And in the follow command you can show all files starting with "A" or > "B" or "C": > # ls [ABC]* > > Or you can show all files starting with a capital letter: > # ls [A-Z]* > > Or you can show all files starting with a capital letter or number: > # ls [A-Z0-9]* > > You can also try the following to show extension types, (file ending with > .txt): # ls *.txt > > Really neat stuff. Also you can use the grep command with ls quite > nicely, the following will list files that has "open" in the filename: > # ls -l | grep open > > Once again if the list is too long add the less command: > # ls -l | grep open | less > > Or you can pipe the output to a file and do a search in the resulting > new file with your favorite editor, (VI): > # ls > filelisting.txt > > > Remember the command-line is where the power is. With great power > comes great responsability - quote Spider-man, yada yada... > > Yes I am a command-line junkie and proud of it! > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
