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Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 04:13:44 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Regular Expressions from Bash Shell
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I don't think either of those meets the letter of the original request.
> 
> If you only want the files in the current directory then something like:
> 
> ls -d *.f | grep -v '^_' | xargs grep EXPRESSION
> 
> should work better.
> 
> Or if you use zsh you can just do:
> 
> grep EXPRESSION *.f~_*

or:

find . -type f -name \*.f -maxdepth 1 \! -name \*_\* |xargs grep EXPR

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