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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Listing directories
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Date: 25 May 90 06:00:52 GMT
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In article <8188@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>,
	lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
)In article <14108@cgl.ucsf.EDU> pett@cgl.ucsf.edu (Eric Pettersen) writes:
): 
): 	Sorry, but writing a perl script to list only directories and not
): plain files is a bit of overkill when the command "ls */" will do the same
): thing.
)
)And it's NOT overkill when the command "ls */" WON'T do the same thing.

But is IS overkill when the command "ls */." WILL do the same thing.  :-)
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