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On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:26:38PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > foo=`echo *.zip |grep -v '*\.zip'` Incidentally, in this way, echo can be used like ls: $ echo * Why is this useful to know? Say your system has severe filesystem corruption, and /bin/ls is one of the files that was corrupted. In general, if that happens, ls will not work, but if your shell still works, you can still get a list of the files in the directory with that command. If you want to also see "hidden" files, then this: $ echo * .[A-Za-z0-9]* Of course, that assumes Roman alphanumeric characters. It doesn't work very well if you have files called things like .��� in the directory. =8^) -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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