On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:19:07AM -0000, john smith wrote: > hi, > Let's say I have 3 files namely; one.c, two.c and a hidden .c file (.hid.c). > now I want to list them... the command > ls -al *.c shows only the two files and it doesn't show the third one... any > ideas? >
Quite right ... ls -a | grep ".c$" (or variations e.g. ls -al | grep ".c$") does what you want. Reason is that * doesn't match . Bob -- "If we were meant to fly, we wouldn't keep losing our luggage."
