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-- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 05:25:34 Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- Clark Sims <clarksimsgnu AT my-Deja DOT com> 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
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