X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:05:28 -0700 From: Gary Johnson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: grep and exact matches help.. Message-ID: <20070403220528.GA12449@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <019001c77617$8e0eabc0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <796F3459-CF33-4CFD-A8A9-6C137F07CD0D@rehley.net> <019001c77617$8e0eabc0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <019601c7761e$2c2531c0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <796F3459-CF33-4CFD-A8A9-6C137F07CD0D@rehley.net> <019601c7761e$2c2531c0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12 (2006-07-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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 garyjohn@spk.agilent.com | 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/