On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:55:34PM -0800, Chris Readle wrote: > You can also do this with something like: > > ls -laR | egrep *.c
He's trying to search the contents of files for a string. Your suggestion searches the directory listing (and not in a very useful way, since *.c does not mean the same thing as a regular expression as it does as a wildcard, and it could also match parts of the "ls -l" output besides the filename). -- Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
