Not sure if you know this but is helpful none the less. If you are looking for a sepcific file you can try to show all files starting with "f": # ls f*
Also you can show all files starting with "fire" in the following command: # ls fire* And in the follow command you can show all files starting with "A" or "B" or "C": # ls [ABC]* Or you can show all files starting with a capital letter: # ls [A-Z]* Or you can show all files starting with a capital letter or number: # ls [A-Z0-9]* You can also try the following to show extension types, (file ending with .txt): # ls *.txt Really neat stuff. Also you can use the grep command with ls quite nicely, the following will list files that has "open" in the filename: # ls -l | grep open Once again if the list is too long add the less command: # ls -l | grep open | less Or you can pipe the output to a file and do a search in the resulting new file with your favorite editor, (VI): # ls > filelisting.txt Remember the command-line is where the power is. With great power comes great responsability - quote Spider-man, yada yada... Yes I am a command-line junkie and proud of it! _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
