Bash globbing files only?
Jacques B.
jjrboucher at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 23:58:42 UTC 2007
> Got an alias for "ls"? Try:
>
> unalias ls
> ls -d */
>
> The -d says don't treat directories specially (normally ls lists
> directory _contents_ if a directory is named).
I do have an alias for ls, but it's simply to add color. I did the
unalias and get the same results. Now with the one you have listed
here, I do get the directories. Even when I source my .bashrc back to
get the alias back, it still works as expected. So the alias is not
affecting my ls beyond adding color.
Is the command $ls [^.]*/
working as expected for you, listing only directories in your current directory?
I'm fairly comfortable with the basics of bash and some intermediate
bash but I hadn't played with globbing much. In reading up on it I'm
left with the impression that the command above would list all files
not starting with a period ([^.]), then the wildcard * (so could be
anything at all), followed by the / (which doesn't seem to do
anything).
Even if it did work, would it not exclude any directory starting with
a period? But that aside, does it work (or not work) for anyone else?
I have
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu)
Thanks,
Jacques
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