On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 14:42 -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 7/22/05, Bruno Cesar Ribas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:01:45PM -0500, Andrew Nelson wrote: > > > 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? > > If you want to list only the dot-started files you could do something like: > > $ls -a1 |grep "^\." > > What's wrong with > $ ls -d .* > ?
If, for some weird reason, there are a huge number of dot files, it could overflow the "glob expansion buffer" $ dir /data/temp/* bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won't do." George Orwell, 1940, reviewing /Mein Kampf/
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