On 2007-04-03, Dave Korn wrote: > BTW2, I assume we're still talking about your script from before. > Seriously, use "ls -1" rather than "ls -l" (that is, use a one instead of an > L), because then you get /just/ the filenames, one per line, and won't have to > worry about parsing the name out from amongst all those permission flags and > datestamps.
On 2007-04-03, Peter Rehley wrote: > Here is one possible solution > > ls -1a | grep winops | grep -v winops-hp > > or maybe this > > ls -1a | sed -e '/winops-hq/d' If you're piping 'ls' into another command, the -1 isn't necessary. 'ls' detects that its stdout is not a tty and delivers single-column output automatically. Regards, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mobile Broadband Division | Spokane, Washington, USA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/