On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:30:08PM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:01:22AM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> >
> > You could always take advantage of grep:
> >
> > `ls ~/mail | grep -v '^sent'`
>
> I thought of that but I need all the info on one line, hence the echo.
Well, how about
echo `ls ~/mail | grep -v '^sent'`
then?
$SOMEVAR=`ls ~/mail | grep -v '^sent'`
works, too, and you can do with $SOMEVAR whatever you like, then.
Cheerio,
Thomas
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