Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/06/16:09:50
Jim,
Apart from the fact that, as Chris F. pointed out, you and Hari seem to
share a misconception about how the "-R" option to "ls" works, your
suggestion about using grep is probably better, in this instance, than
involving "find" as I said you "must" do (a very poor and inaccurate choice
of words).
You'll probably want to use the "-i" option to grep so that it matches the
letters in the suffixes case insensitively, since Windows doesn't care
about alphabetic case in any part of a file name.
If you use "egrep" you can get multiple suffixes selected in a single command:
ls -laR |egrep -i '.(doc|pdf|rtf)'
for example.
Randall Schulz
At 00:59 2002-07-06, Jim George wrote:
>Hari,
>
> it doesn't work in 1.3.11 either.
>
> You can always pipe it to grep (ls -laR | grep '.DOC' for example).
>
>Jim
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Hari Turlapati" <hturlapati AT yahoo DOT co DOT in>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 8:14 PM
>Subject: ls -R doesn't work; V1.3.12 on Win2000
>
>
> > The command "ls -laR *.doc" (Recursive listing of *.doc or *.pdf or
> > *.rtf, in general files with specific extension) under a subdirectory to
> > /cygdrive/c/ doesn't work. Even "ls -laR *.*" doesn't work.
> >
> > But "ls -laR *" lists all the files under the subdirectories.
> >
> > I am using CygWin Release 1.3.12-1 on Win2000 OS. The command "uname -a"
> > on my machine prints out the following:
> >
> > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 HariPC 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-03 16:42 i686 unknown
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Hari
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