On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:01:45PM -0500, Andrew Nelson wrote: > > I thought the question was to get rid of non "." files all together not simply > to put "." files and the top and non "." files at the bottom. My mistake. > > Although it seems this is far more difficult that it should be to remove all > non > "." file from the output of ls. Does any one know of a better way? > > //andy > If you want to list only the dot-started files you could do something like: $ls -a1 |grep "^\."
it will "hide" non-dot-started files. hope it can help -- Bruno Ribas - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]