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Derek Martin wrote: > 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.
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