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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: filename substitution question
Message-ID: <1083@vsi.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 89 14:00:32 GMT
References: <1627@ncar.ucar.edu> <15131@bellcore.bellcore.com>
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[ how do we list all files *except* mentioned ones? ]

In article <15131@bellcore.bellcore.com>, tr@madeleine.ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold) writes:
> While everyone's solutions have been more elegant than mine, I think
> I should post the most obvious one.
> 
> 	ls | grep -v frog.c
> 

Be careful here.  Many versions of ls columnize their output, so
the above will exclude everything that appears on the same line
as the mentioned file.  This can happen either by ls's default action
or by aliases or shell functions defined by {/etc/,.}profile.

     Steve

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