On Jun 17, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Tom Chapin wrote:
On Jun 17, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Jerry wrote:
ls -l | grep ^- | sort -nr -k 5 | more
ls -lR | grep ^- | sort -nr -k 5 | more


The question is what does the hyphen mean in the | grep ^- | part?

Only show regular files, ignoring directories or other types of files...

You can eliminate the sort command if you are using GNU ls with the - S option:

ls -lS | grep ^-
ls -lRS | grep ^-

Regards,
- Robert
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