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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ls -A
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Date: 10 Oct 89 17:50:33 GMT
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>On system V you could use:
>
>	grep 'pattern' .[!.]* ..?* *

More precisely, under the System V Bourne shell you could use the above. 
Some systems that advertise themselves as System V include the C shell,
and probably don't support the "!" operator in the C shell, and some
systems not thought of as System V systems have a System V Bourne shell
as their Bourne shell.