Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "Ajit George" To: Subject: RE: How do I list subdirectories? Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:14:28 -0500 Message-ID: <000701beef60$58363900$830120d0@abita.kurianinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal What's happening is that the shell is expanding *\/, which shouldn't match any file name unless you've gone to the trouble of creating a file with '/' in its name. Ajit -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com] On Behalf Of Clark Sims Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 8:09 AM To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: How do I list subdirectories? -- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 05:25:34 Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- Clark Sims wrote: >> In the FSF version of bash >> ls -F | egrep *\/ >> listed all of the subdirectories of the current working >> directory. >> In the Cygwin version the same command produces no >> output. >> >> How do I list the subdirectories of the current working >> directory? >> > >Doesn't the egrep need to be `egrep .*\/'? The period indicates any character, >the * indicates any number of the preceding character. Therefore to match what >you want you need to specify .* to mean any number of any character. > Nice try but ls -F | egrep .*\/ doesn't work. I agree that it ought to. I don't understand why it doesn't. However Kim Poulsen found a command that does work: ls -F | egrep \/ It seems that this is a question on pattern matching. It seems to me that a directory which is mached by: \/ should also be matched by *\/ and .*\/ Maybe I will understand the difference in interpretations as I become more familiar with Cygwin. Untill then I am stumped. Thanks, Clark --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com