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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Idiom for $(ls -d $pattern 2>/dev/null)
Message-ID: <2189@solo11.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 21 Mar 89 03:26:22 GMT
References: <21939@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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das@lanai.cs.ucla.edu writes:

\Do you have a favorite idiom for (ksh syntax):
\	for f in *
\(Which is not what you really want, since if the directory is empty, f takes on
\the value "*").

set - `
	for i in .* *
	do
		echo "$i"
	done | sed -e '/^\.$/d' -e '/^\.\.$/d'
`
[ -f "$1" ] && {
	for i
	do
		echo "$i"
	done
}
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