Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020706131630.01d1eaf8@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 13:19:23 -0700 To: "Jim George" , "Hari Turlapati" , From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: ls -R doesn't work; V1.3.12 on Win2000 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020706130513.025cca18@pop3.cris.com> References: <009401c224c3$087da5b0$0400a8c0@JIMGEORGE> <000901c22458$419aef30$9e00100a@HTURLAPATI> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Jim, Hari, Sorry... I didn't review my posting critically before sending it off... There's an oversight in both my and Jim's posting: The "." character is the single-character match-any pattern character in all the grep variants (and in other programs, such as sed and Perl), and hence must be escaped to be interpreted literally as the period character. So the proper incantation of my example is: ls -laR |egrep -i '\.(doc|pdf|rtf)' Randall At 13:10 2002-07-06, Randall R Schulz wrote: >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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/