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Old 10-24-2005, 03:15 PM   #1
Serena
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Question ls, grep

I wanted to `ls -l` but exclude everything that is a symbolic link. So I tried
ls -l | grep -E -v '-\>'
which doesn't work. Is there a way to get the regex to work, or did I just miss a ls option which will do the same thing?
 
Old 10-24-2005, 03:26 PM   #2
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since a link has permissions that start with l, (eg lrwx-wxr-x)...
why not use
Code:
ls -l |egrep -v ^l
which would eliminate any line that begins with a "l"

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