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Re: grep


From: Chris Jones
Subject: Re: grep
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:03:08 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 02:09:12PM EDT, lamarr wrote:
> 
> Vincenzo Antignano wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > For istance, if want to match lines containing hidden file names, the  
> > ...
> 
> $ ls -a | grep ^\\.
> 
> does the job.

Not here - vanilla debian "lenny" install.

$ ls -a | grep ^\\.* 

does .. and interestingly this does not recursively list the contents of
the "dot directories".

Different than:

$ ls -a .*

CJ




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